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<i>Aloeurymela langfieldi</i> Evans, adult.

Aloeurymela langfieldi Evans, adult.

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Species Aloeurymela langfieldi Evans, 1966


Compiler and date details

3 August 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the type locality which is the Kimberley Research Station at Kununurra in the far NE corner of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

WA: Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head lemon yellow, or pale yellow, with brown markings. Pronotum pale buff mottled with pale brown, posteriorly narrowly whitish. Scutellum pale buff with a broad, central, longitudinal and triangular lateral, dark brown markings. Tegmen with a broad irregular whitish transverse hyaline fascia parallel with the sides of the scutellum, broadly bordered on each side with a hyaline coffee brown area; apically transparent or pale brownish hyaline (Evans 1966).

Evans (1966) provided figures of the male genitalia of both species of Aloeurymela.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019 02-Dec-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)