Species Diceropyga subapicalis (Walker, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dundubia subapicalis Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 10: 82-193, pl. 3 [87-89].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Aru Islands.
• Dundubia obtecta Kirkaldy, G.W. 1905. Memoir on the Rhynchota collected by Dr. Arthur Willey, F.R.S., chiefly in Birara (New Britain) and Lifu. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1905: 327-363, pl. 17 [330] [misidentification].
• Cosmopsaltria atra Distant, W.L. 1897. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia orientale. XVII. Additions to our knowledge of the Cicadidae of New Guinea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 17: 378-383 [380].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♂, N. Guinea, Mer. Port Moresby.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Duffels, J.P. 1977. A revision of the genus Diceropyga Stål, 1870 (Homoptera, Cicadidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 8: 1-227 [48]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually on the trunks and larger limbs of understorey trees growing within or at the edge of the forest.

History of changes