Species Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave, 1927

Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave, adult

© Copyright Jerome Constant, RBINS, Belgium

Museums

Regional Maps

• Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave, A. 1927. Contributions to the knowledge of Australian Hemiptera. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 16(1): 47-49 [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K55909 ♂ (coll.: i.1924, T.A. Cole), Chinchilla, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) AM K55910 ♀ (coll.: i.1924, T.A. Cole; designated as allotype), Chinchilla, Queensland
  Comment: Musgrave (1927) had the sexes the wrong way around, based on the registration numbers on the specimens (Constant 2010).

Introduction

This species is one of the largest Australian fulgorids and is distinctively coloured. Nothing is known of its biology. Constant (2010) suggests that its distribution may follow the Great Dividing Range along eastern Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

The species is immediately recognized by the following combination of characters: (1) frons pale yellow to red with 4 black spots on disc, (2) hind wings with base red, (3) abdominal tergites 3 to 8 bright orange, (4) tegmina with numerous black-brown spots, with base rosy red and with apex hyaline (Constant 2010).

ID Keys

Constant 2010: 40

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2010. Review of the Australian genus Desudaboides Musgrave with descriptions of four new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). Zootaxa (2351): 39–48 [42–43]

History of changes