Species Desudaba maculata Distant, 1893

Desudaba maculata Distant, adult

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Regional Maps

• Desudaba maculata Distant, W.L. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the homopterous family Fulgoridae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1892: 275-286 [277].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (possible holotype by monotypy), Peak Downs, Queensland.

Introduction

This beautifully marked species is distributed from Peak Downs (the type locality) in the North Brigalow Belt of Queensland to the Nandewar region of NE New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Body above with the head, thorax and base of abdomen black; remainder of abdomen and the eyes ochraceous. Body beneath ochraceous, the head, prosternum and legs black; rostrum fuscous, its base black. Tegmina black, the apical third fuscous, the black portion ornamented with seven to nine bright red spots, the extreme base also streaked with the same colour. Wings hyaline, with the venation fuscous, the basal third dark fuscous containing a large basal reddish patch streaked with greyish. Long. excl. tegm. 13 mm. Exp. tegm. 34 mm. (Distant 1893).

Nagai and Porion (1996) provide a figure (Pl. 3 fig. 50).

ID Keys

Lallemand 1963: 47–49

Diagnosis References

Lallemand, V. 1963. Revision des Fulgoridae (Homoptera). Deuxième partie. Faunes Asiatique et Australienne. Memoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 2nd Series 75: 1-99 [49]

Nagai, S. & Porion, T. 1996. Fulgoridae 2. Catalogue illustré des faunes asiatique et australienne. 2 rue André Mellenne, 60280 Venette, France : Sciences Nat pp. 80. [19]

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