Species Crito festivus Distant, 1916

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• Crito festivus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species has been misidentified by most authors subsequent to Distant (1916) but its identity was established by Day (1999) who also stated that most other specimens ascribed to the genus, from Papua New Guinea, Queensland and South Australia, belong to other genera. The only known locality for C. festivus is the type locality, Kuranda in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum, and body beneath piceous; lateral areas of sternum and a large spot at each basal angle of scutellum greyishly tomentose; femora piceous, their apices and the tibiae and tarsi pale ochraceous; tegmina subhyaline, with a bronzy tint, the venation black, apical third pale castaneous where the venation is concolorous, apical margin purplish brown; pronotum coarsely punctate; base of tegmina and base of costal area punctate; other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. Long., incl. tegm., 5 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 3 mm. (Distant 1916).

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [43]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)