Species Rhotana transversa Distant, 1907

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• Rhotana transversa 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.

Introduction

This is one of several species described from "Queensland" by Distant (1907). These species were collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and it is probable that this is the source of the material.

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 above ochraceous, beneath with legs paler; scutellum pale sanguineous; tegmina and wings subhyaline, talc-like, the veins more or less ochraceous; tegmina crossed by two narrow very pale fuscous transverse fasciae, the first at about one third from base and not extending to the costal area, the second subapical, between is a third very short fascia, commencing on costal margin and only extending about one third across tegmen, a spot on costal area above the first fascia and a series of small spots on apical margin. Allied to R. ramentosa Dist., but to be easily separated from that species by the direction of the subapical transverse fascia, which follows the direction of the subapical transverse veins and is not curved inwardly to apex of clavus as in R. ramentosa, but terminates near posterior angle of the inner margin. 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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