Species Dardus obscura Distant, 1893

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• Dardus obscura Distant, W.L. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the homopterous family Fulgoridae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1892: 275-286 [283].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, Peak Downs, Queensland.
• Dardus immaculatus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [446].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [415]

Introduction

The identity of this species needs to be determined based on examination of the type material. It appears to differ from D. abbreviatus in the lack of a white spot on the costal margin of the tegmen. D. obscura has been recorded in the Brisbane area and in the North Brigalow Belt at Peak Downs homestead.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head above, thorax and tegmina, dark castaneous; face, abdomen and legs, pale sanguineous; face with a broad, castaneous fascia at base; eyes pale ochraceous. Long. 5 millim. (Distant 1893)

Piceous, immaculate. Carinae on head, pronotum, etc., and veins (mostly) dark castaneous. Pleura, abdomen and posterior femora sanguineous; rest of legs obscurely marked with pale brown. Lateral angles of frons much more produced than in Stål's figure of D. abbreviata. Length: 5 7/8 mill. (Kirkaldy 1906, as Dardus immaculatus)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the homopterous family Fulgoridae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1892: 275-286 [283]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [446]

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