Species Swezeyia pulchella (Muir, 1924)

Museums

Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Ho. 2752 ♂ (coll.: xii.1921, H. Hacker), National Park, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Swezeyia pulchella (Muir, 1924). —
  Muir, F. 1927. Hemiptera Fulgoroidea. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 1(2): 1-27 [20]

Introduction

This species was based on two males and two females from National Park, SE Queensland. It is a small delicate species, white with some dark markings and a waxy covering on the body and tegmina.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Light yellow with white waxy secretion, antennae and a line in front of eyes black or fuscous, the line continued behind eyes over sides of pronotum and mesonotum; fuscous over abdominal tergites. Tegmina hyaline, white with waxy secretion, fuscous over middle of clavus, Cu and basal median sector into apical Cu and M cells, a black spot on cross vein at apex of M, veins same colour as membrane or slightly yellow; wings hyaline with light veins, opaque with waxy secretion. Male. Vertex about as long as broad, lateral margins thick and produced at apex, base and apex roundly emarginate; face widest at base, in profile base considerably produced; antennae not as long as face, very slightly flattened. Lateral margins of pygofer roundly produced, ventral margin straight; anal segment in dorsal view longer than wide, base slightly wider than apex, anus at apex, apical margin with a small emargination in middle. Female similar to male but the antennae are terete and, in profile, the base of face not projecting so much. Hind margin of seventh abdominal tergite roundly produced in middle, with a minute emargination in middle. Length, male. 2.7 mm; tegmen 4.2 mm (Muir 1924)

Diagnosis References

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

History of changes