Species Birdantis virginiae Constant, 2011

Birdantis virginiae Constant, adult.

© Copyright Jerome Constant, RBINS, Belgium.

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

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 20 004475 ♂ (coll: 1–15.ii.2010, D.C.F. Rentz, 335m), top of the Range, Kuranda, Queensland [16°48’S 145°38’E].

Introduction

This species is more widespread than other Australian species of the genus extending south from Cape York Peninsula to the wet tropics of North Queensland. It was "dedicated to a promising young biologist, Miss Virginie Guibourt" (Constant 2011).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Toona ciliata M. Roem, 1846 [MELIACEAE] Australian Red Cedar).

Diagnosis

This species keys to Birdantis similis (Schmidt) in a key provided by Lallemand (1963) but B. virginiae is easily separated from B. similis by the following characters of the latter: base of tegmina red; no black line between frons and vertex; three central lines of frons joining dorsally (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 [52–54]

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