Species Swezeyia pseudopalidocornis (Muir, 1913)

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• Phantasmatocera pseudopalidocornis Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (holotype by monotypy — Muir 1924: 30), Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Swezeyia pseudopalidocornis (Muir, 1913). —
  Muir, F. 1927. Hemiptera Fulgoroidea. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 1(2): 1-27 [20]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Swezeyia pseudopallidocornis Muir, 1913. —
  Metcalf, Z.P. 1945. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 4, Derbidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 212 pp. [154] (subsequent misspelling)

Introduction

Muir (1913) described two species of Phantasmatocera, one from Larat Island in Indonesia and one from North Queensland. The Larat species was P. pallidocornis (with a double "l") and the Queensland species was P. pseudopalidocornis (ie, with a single "l"). In the description of the second, he compared it with the first using the spelling "palidocornis" so it could be interpreted that the single "l" was a clear typographical error, although he used the single "l" twice so it could equally be argued that the double "l" in pallidocornis was the unintentional spelling. In 1924 he referred to the species again, and again used P. pseudopalidocornis. Metcalf's catalogue (Metcalf 1945) amended the spelling to pseudopallidocornis without comment but this is taken here to be an incorrect subsequent spelling (B. Halliday, pers. comm 14.i.2011). P. pseudopalidocornis was described from "Queensland". Muir (1913) indicated that the species was based on females only and Muir (1924) noted that it had been based on a single specimen, this therefore being a holotype by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

I have specimens from Queensland which I can only distinguish from palidocornis with certainty by the last ventral abdominal plate, which is more roundly produced, narrower, and the ventral lobes (sheaths) narrower. Length 2.4 mm.; tegmen 3.5 mm. (Muir 1913)

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [49]

General References

Metcalf, Z.P. 1945. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 4, Derbidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 212 pp. [154]

Muir, F. 1913. On some new species of leafhopper. Part II Derbidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 12: 28-92 [49]

Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [30]

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