Species Desudaboides rentzi Constant, 2010

Desudaboides rentzi Constant, adult

© Copyright Jerome Constant, RBINS, Belgium

Museums

Regional Maps

• Desudaboides rentzi Constant, J. 2010. Review of the Australian genus Desudaboides Musgrave with descriptions of four new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae). Zootaxa (2351): 39–48 [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM ♀ (coll: Wells & Rentz, 29.x.1991, mv light), Florence Falls, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory [13°03’S 130°47’E].

Introduction

This is the only species of Desudaboides recorded in the Northern Territory. The species was "dedicated to my friend, Dr David Rentz (Kuranda, Queensland) who is one of the collectors of the holotype of the new species" (Constant 2010).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

The species is immediately recognized by the following combination of characters: (1) frons red, often with oblique carinae olivaceous, (2) hind wings with bright orange base, (3) abdominal tergites 3 to 8 red, (4) tegmina opaque, variegated brown (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 [46–47]

History of changes