Species Chinaella pingellensis Evans, 1972
Compiler and date details
27 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Chinaella pingellensis Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [176].
Type data:
Holotype AM K69234 ♂ (coll.: x.1966, J.W. Evans), Pingelly, Western Australia.
Introduction
This species is known only from the type locality, Pingelly, in the Avon Wheatbelt of Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Coloration brown and black. Face of head black, finely mottled with reddish brown; antennal ledges, frontoclypeus medially and posteriorly, margins of maxillary plates and eyes, narrowly reddish brown. Pronotum black mottled with reddish brown. Scutellum black, apically and a spot on each side pale brown. Tegmen pale hyaline brown, grey and white, with irregular brown patches; venation in clavus reticulate; numerous cross veins between CuA and claval suture; veins brown. Length ♂ 3.8 mm, ♀ 4 mm (Evans 1972).
Evans (1972) also provided an illustration of the male genitalia.
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [175, 176]
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