Species Desudaboides nigrifrons Constant, 2010

Desudaboides nigrifrons Constant, holotype

© Copyright Jerome Constant, RBINS, Belgium

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• Desudaboides nigrifrons Constant, J. 2010. Review of the Australian genus Desudaboides Musgrave with descriptions of four new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). Zootaxa (2351): 39–48 [45].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCT HE029967 ♂ (coll: 20.x.2003, P. Erbe. m.v. lamp), Ganyan Drive, Speewah, Kuranda, North Queensland [16°49'S 145°39'E].

Introduction

This species is known only from the male holotype from Kuranda, in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

The species is immediately recognized by the following combination of characters: (1) frons with large black marking on disc, (2) hind wings without red or orange, (3) abdominal tergites black, (4) size less than 24 mm (Constant 2010).

ID Keys

Constant 2010: 40

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2010. Review of the Australian genus Desudaboides Musgrave with descriptions of four new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). Zootaxa (2351): 39–48 [45]

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