Species Andrewsiella oceanica Izzard, 1936

Andrewsiella oceanica Izzard, adult female, stored in ethanol.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Andrewsiella oceanica Izzard, R.J. 1936. The Hemiptera of Christmas Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 17: 577-600 [594].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: i.1898), Christmas Island, North Coast.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♂ (coll.: 1898, C.W. Andrews), Christmas Island, North Coast.

Introduction

The two species of Tongini found on Christmas Island have the tegmina tuberculate in texture in the cells and particularly on the clavus.

Distribution

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum, scutellum and body greenish ochraceous, a series of whitish granules on frons at either side of the apex of vertex, base of front margined with red, shaped like an inverted V; eyes mottled grey. Legs greenish ochraceous, the tibiae narrowly margined with brown; tarsal spines and claws tipped with brown; tubercles on the tegmina yellow; wings hyaline. Total length 6.1 mm, wing expanse 13.7 mm (Izzard 1936).

Diagnosis References

Izzard, R.J. 1936. The Hemiptera of Christmas Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 17: 577-600 [594]

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