Species Dipsiathus pallidifrons Emeljanov, 2005

Dipsiathus pallidifrons Emeljanov, holotype male

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• Dipsiathus pallidifrons Emeljanov, A.F. 2005. New genera and species of the Family Achilidae (Homoptera). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 84 1: 10-45 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll: F. McDonald, 4.ix.1969), Pearl Beach, near Woy Woy, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) ASCU ♂ (coll: E.W. Dicker, 30.viii.1978), Lismore district, New South Wales; ASCU ♀ (coll: G.R. Brown, 7.xii.1987, 620-890m), Kurrawonga Falls track, Mt Kaputar Nat. Pk, New South Wales [30:21S 150:10E]; ASCU ♀ (coll: G.R. Brown & H.M. Holmes, 13-14.ix.1986), Green Point, Beecroft Peninsular, 30km SE of Nowra, New South Wales.

Introduction

A species not well represented in collections but widespread along coastal New South Wales. Nothing is known of its biology but it is probably fungivorous as a nymph.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: sap-feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Paler in colour than D. obscurifrons and with the pterostigmatic area less well defined and less densly reticulate. Tegmen glassy clear with transverse brown bandings and bearing a distinct preapical line of crossveins.

History of changes