Species Chinaella pingellensis Evans, 1972

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• Chinaella pingellensis Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [176].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K69234 ♂ (coll.: x.1966, J.W. Evans), Pingelly, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This species is known only from the type locality, Pingelly, in the Avon Wheatbelt of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Coloration brown and black. Face of head black, finely mottled with reddish brown; antennal ledges, frontoclypeus medially and posteriorly, margins of maxillary plates and eyes, narrowly reddish brown. Pronotum black mottled with reddish brown. Scutellum black, apically and a spot on each side pale brown. Tegmen pale hyaline brown, grey and white, with irregular brown patches; venation in clavus reticulate; numerous cross veins between CuA and claval suture; veins brown. Length ♂ 3.8 mm, ♀ 4 mm (Evans 1972).

Evans (1972) also provided an illustration of the male genitalia.

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [175, 176]

 

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