Species Ricania aurora Distant, 1909

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Regional Maps

• Ricania aurora Distant, W.L. 1909. Rhynchota Notes. xlix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(4): 320-338 [325].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll: F.P. Dodd; possibly holotype by monotypy), Queensland.

Introduction

This species was described simply from "Queensland" but the type series was collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (see Monteith 1991) and it is probable that the specimen(s) originated there.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Vertex and pronotum pale ochraceous; mesonotum brownish ochraceous, with a black spot on each posterior lateral margin; abdomen above, body beneath, and legs pale ochraceous; tegmina pale shining ochraceous, a paler ochraceous spot crossing costal membrane at apex of radial area, just beyond which there is a black spot and another of the same colour at apex near margin; wings hyaline, with the venation pale ochraceous; face broad, faintly tricarinate, none of the carinations reaching the posterior margin; vertex and pronotum centrally longitudinally finely carinate; mesonotum finely tricarinate, the Iateral carinations curved, meeting on anterior margin and also connected with it by a straight carinate line on each side; tegmina short and broad, their apices convexly rounded. Long., excl. tegm., 6½ to 7 mm; exp. tegm. 21 mm. (Distant 1909).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1909. Rhynchota Notes. xlix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(4): 320-338 [325]

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] [1]

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