Species Opiconsiva dodona (Fennah, 1965)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corbulo dodona Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 25.iii.1954, Y.B. Beri), Deception Bay, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Opiconsiva dodona (Fennah, 1965). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1975. Homoptera: Delphacidae from Ceylon. Entomologica Scandinavica. Supplementum 4: 79-136 [112]

Introduction

This species was described, as Corbulo dodona Fennah, from four localities in SE Queensland but Fennah (1975), in moving the species to Opiconsiva, recorded it from numerous localities throughout Sri Lanka. It is possibly adventive in Australia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Vertex as long medially as broad at base or slightly longer than broad. Subrectangularly obtusely rounding into frons, slightly narrower at apex than at base, lateral margins straight, apical margin truncate with submedian carinae moderately prominent, Y-shaped carina moderately distinct, submedian carinae uniting at apex of vertex, basal compartment of vertex wider at hind margin than greatest length (about 1.5 : 1); and than median length (1.8 : 1); frons in middle line longer than wide at widest part (2.2 : 1), widest at two thirds from base, lateral margins shallowly convex, median carina simple; clypeus at base only very little wider than frons at apex, postclypeal disc as long as broad at base, in profile very weakly convex, anteclypeus in profile weakly convex; entire clypeus in profile shallowly convex; rostrum surpassing mesotrochanters, but not attaining post-trochanters; antennae slightly surpassing frontoclypeal suture, basal segment longer than broad (1.6 : 1), second segment longer than first (1.8 : 1); ocelli distinct, of moderate size. Pronotum with disc slightly longer in middle line than broad at anterior margin (1.1 : 1), lateral carinae weakly concave, not attaining hind margin. Total length of mesonotum greater than that of scutellum (2.4 : 1). Post tibial spur with about 19 teeth. Fuscous; vertex, disc and hind margin of pronotum, carinae of frons and clypeus, basal segment of rostrum, ventrites at posterolateral angles, and dorsal angles of pgofer, pallid yellow or creamy white; apical segment of rostrum, antennae and legs testaceous. Tegmina hyaline, with very dilute fuscous suffusion, veins fuscous, a linear spot between common claval vein and commissural margin dark fuscous, the margin pallid just basad of this. (Fennah 1965)

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [48–49]

Misidentification

— as Kelisia paludum, Muir, F. 1917. New Hawaiian Delphacidae. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 3: 298–311 [310].

History of changes