Species Birdantis mouldsi Constant, 2011

Birdantis mouldsi Constant, adult.

© Copyright Jerome Constant, RBINS, Belgium.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Birdantis mouldsi Constant, J. 2011. The genus Birdantis Stål in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). Zootaxa 2885: 44–54 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU MJF003020 ♂ (coll: 3.xi.1979, M.S. & B.J. Moulds), Peach Creek 25km NNE of Coen, North Queensland [13°37'S 143°05'E].

Introduction

This species is known from numerous specimens from localities along the eastern coastline of Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland as well as from some islands in Torres Strait. The species was "dedicated to Dr Max S. Moulds who collected the holotype of the species" (Constant 2011).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

The species is close to Birdantis obscura (Distant, 1888) from Papua New Guinea but can be separated from the latter by its smaller size in B. obscura, length: ♂ (n = 2): 25 mm (24.7–25.3); ♀ (n = 7): 26.1 mm (25.0–27.0) and different colour of the hind wings: hyaline area limited to apical third, without transition between dark and pale zones in B. obscura (extending to half of wing and progressively getting darker in B. mouldsi) and basal red markings less developed in B. obscura (Constant 2011).

ID Keys

Constant 2011: 45

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2011. The genus Birdantis Stål in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). Zootaxa 2885: 44–54 [50–51]

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