Species Otinotoides australis Distant, 1916

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• Otinotoides australis Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [40].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: ix.1904, F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland
  Comment: Distant (1916) gave the type locality as "Queensland (F.P. Dodd)" but the label details provided by Broomfield (1971) included Kuranda.

  Type locality references:

  Broomfield, P.S. 1971. A catalogue of the Membracid types (Homoptera : Membracidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 25: 327-386 [334].

 

Introduction

This species is known from several localities in Queensland, mostly in the tropical north but also from Stanthorpe in SE Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), New England Tablelands (NET), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Banksia sp. [PROTEACEAE]; Grevillea sp. [PROTEACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Pronotum brownish ochraceous, the anterior pronotal lateral processes black or nearly black, and the area between them darker castaneous, posterior process (excluding base) black; face pale castaneous; femora pale castaneous, their
apices and the tibiae and tarsi stramineous, tarsal claws black; tegmina dull stramineous, base, costal and subcostal areas, and the apical margin black; pronotum punctate, the lateral processes long, subacute, directed outwardly and a little upwardly, centrally carinate, the posterior process tricarinate, touching the scutellum and then moderately convexly elevated, its apical half roundly deflected, its apex slender, subacute, and almost reaching the tegminal apex; the dark areas of the tegmina more or less distinctly punctate. Long., incl. tegm., 5 mm.; exp. lat, pronot. process 3½ mm (Distant 1916).

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [40–41]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACIDAE Germar, 1821	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
16-May-2012		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED