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Species Aneipo diana Fennah, 1949


Compiler and date details

27.7.2010 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This small whitish species is only represented in collections by the type series collected by F.P. Dodd at Kuranda, N. Queensland in 1904.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

 

Diagnosis

Small (total length: male, 5.9 mm, female 6.5 mm) whitish with a series of oblique brown stripes set along almost the entire costal margin of the forewing. A. diana is clearly distinguished from other species of the genus by the form of the bursa copulatix sclerite (a curved, subrectangular basal plate attached to bursa with a central ventrally projected spinose process, very narrow and sharp in posterior view, lobate in lateral view), the shape of the medioventral process of the pygofer (transverse, with slightly sinuate lateral margins converging to a truncate apex), the absence of a basal dorsal knob on the clasper and the non-spinose aedeagal appendages. (Lambkin 1978)

 

ID Keys

Lambkin 1978: 28

 

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)
12-Aug-2010 02-May-2011 MODIFIED
21-Jul-2010 MODIFIED