Species Levu opalinum (Distant, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhotana opalina Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [410].

  Type data:

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

Generic Combinations

• Levu opalinum (Distant, 1907). —
  Muir, F. 1918. Notes on the Derbidae in the British Museum collection. II. Derbinae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 54: 228-243 [231]

Introduction

This species was described simply from "Queensland" but it was collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and the type material is presumed to have originated in that region.

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

Body and legs pale ochraceous; disk of mesonotum, scutellum, and body beneath sanguineous; eyes black; tegmina subhyaline, talc-like, with opaline reflections, the venation ochraceous, a subapical undulating fascia, preceded by two short fasciae, extending from costa to near middle of tegmen, the outer half of inner margin, and a series of small apical marginal spots very pale fuscous, a central edge-like spot to costal margin, edge of apical margin, and the apices of the upper apical veins white; wings pale hyaline; tegmina with the costal margin somewhat strongly sinuate beyond middle, the transverse series of subapical veins not posteriorly curved inwards, but nearly straightly [sic!] transverse. Long., excl. tegm., 2 mm; exp. tegm. 9 mm (Distant 1907).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [410]

General References

Monteith, G.B. 1991. The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. South Brisbane : Queensland Museum 1, 34 pp. [ISBN 0 7242 4481 6]

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