Species Solonaima solonaima Kirkaldy, 1906

Solonaima solonaima Kirkaldy

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Solonaima solonaima Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [397].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM 4764 ♂ (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland
  Comment: Kirkaldy (1906) did not designate a holotype, nor indicate how many specimens he examined although it can be implied that he had more than one specimen because he gave a size range for the length of the male. Hoch & Howarth (1989) note that there are two male specimens one of which bears a holotype label. The holotype labels on specimens in BPBM were probably added by Muir and have not been validated by publication. ICZN Art. 74.5 states that reference to a holotype by subsequent authors does not constitute a lectotype designation if the original publication implies that there are syntypes in existence. These two specimens therefore remain as syntypes.

Introduction

This species is still known only from the type series despite a number of recent taxonomic publications on the genus Solonaima.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

This species can be distinguished from all other Solonaima species by the shape of the male genitalia.

ID Keys

Hoch & Howarth (1989: 382)

Diagnosis References

Hoch, H. & Howarth, F.G. 1989. Six new cavernicolous cixiid planthoppers in the genus Solonaima from Australia (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Systematic Entomology 14: 377-402 [383]

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