Species Phaconeura hackeri Woodward, 1957

Phaconeura hackeri Woodward, adult male (specimen in ethanol).

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Phaconeura hackeri Woodward, T.E. 1957. Studies on Queensland Hemiptera. Part II. Meenoplidae (Fulgoroidea). University of Queensland Papers, Department of Entomology 1(4): 57-70 [64].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T5557 ♂ (coll: 10.xii.1925, H. Hacker), Bunya Mountains, Queensland.

Introduction

A small, dark coloured species similar to P. froggatti Kirkaldy from which it can be reliably differentiated only by reference to certain structures of the male genitalia. It has been recorded in SE Queensland and from near Grafton in the NE corner of New South Wales on Acacia falcata Willd. (Fabaceae) but it is not known if this is a host plant.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Tegmina between veins fuscous brown, without pale costal band; Anal segment of male divided behind anal lobe into two divergent acuminate processes; Harpagones of male without a subbasal anterior lobe, with posterior margin evenly convex, without wart-like swellings; lateral lobes of periandrium with a series of spines along inner margin; aedeagus curved and ventrally extended beyond gonopore (Woodward 1957).

Woodward (1957) provides illustrations of the male and female genitalia.

ID Keys

Woodward 1957: 58

Diagnosis References

Woodward, T.E. 1957. Studies on Queensland Hemiptera. Part II. Meenoplidae (Fulgoroidea). University of Queensland Papers, Department of Entomology 1(4): 57-70 [64–65]

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