Species Dingkana borealis Goding, 1903

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• Dingkana borealis Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [9].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀ (coll.: Tryon), Cairns, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This small densely hairy species is only known from the wet tropics of North Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head piceous, finely punctured, front strongly inflexed, lobed on each side. Prothorax convex, sordid black, finely punctured, narrowed behind lateral angles, extended in a long slender process, not sinuate below, sinuate above, reaching tip of abdomen and nearly reaching apices of tegmina, the apex strongly and lengthily curved downward, the process touching the interior borders of tegmina the entire length. Tegmina vitreous, vinaceous, punctured, ferruginous and opaque at base, radial and costal veins and those including discoidal cells, ferruginous; second and third discoidal cells of equal length, the first much shorter. Tibiae yellowish brown. Long 5; lat. 2 mm (Goding 1903).

 

Diagnosis References

Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [9]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)