Species Dardus erebus Distant, 1917

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• Dardus erebus Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [187].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, Moreton Bay, Queensland; whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown, Leura, New South Wales.

Introduction

Distant (1917) gives two localities for his type material: Moreton Bay, Queensland, which is followed by "(Brit Mus.)" indicating that it is in BMNH, and Leura, New South Wales, which is followed by "(Froggatt)" which implies that it was in the Froggatt collection. The location of this material is probably either ASCU or ANIC (all currently on loan to J. Constant, RBINS, Belgium). The identity of the species, which seems remarkably simliar in colouration to D. abbreviatus (Guérin-Méneville), requires examination of this type material.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Black; tegmina with a prominent transverse, slightly oblique, pale ochraceous or greyish-white spot before middle of costal area; vertex of head broad, short, very slightly concavely depressed on anterior margin, a central dull castaneous ridge and a slight foveation before each eye; pronotum with the lateral areas of the anterior margin and three discal carinations - one central and straight, the other two oblique - dull castaneous; scutellum pale dull castaneous; tegmina with the venation very obscurely dull castaneous; abdomen beneath sanguineous; posterior tibiae more or less brownish ochraceous. Long., incl. tegm. 5.5– 6 mm. (Distant 1917)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [187]

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