Species Swezeyia arborea (Kirkaldy, 1906)

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Regional Maps

• Phantasmatocera arborea Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [431].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904, on trees), Kuranda, Queensland.
• Arunta rubrovenosa Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [406].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

  Secondary source:

   Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [177] (synonymised by Kirkaldy).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [177] (synonymy of Arunta rubrovenosa)

Generic Combinations

• Swezeyia arborea (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Muir, F. 1927. Hemiptera Fulgoroidea. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 1(2): 1-27 [20]

Introduction

This tiny (5mm) pale species was described from the wet tropics of North Queensland. Jacobi (928) recorded it from "Cedar Creek" although the location of this is uncertain. A township of Cedar Creek is located in SE Queensland but there are localities named Cedar Creek in the wet tropics as well.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Testaceous, a broad dark brown stripe laterally on genae through eyes to posterolateral angle of scutellum. Eyes and clypeus blackish brown. Tegmina hyaline, milky, a somewhat faint mediolongitidunal smoky stripe; some veins sanguineous, some yellowish. Length: 2.25 mm to apex of abdomen, 5 to apex of tegmina (Kirkaldy 1906)

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [431]

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