Species Erilla turneri Distant, 1906

Erilla turneri Distant, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Erilla turneri Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal Notes. xxxviii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 18-32 [28].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (Gilbert Turner), Queensland.

Introduction

This species is quite distinctively coloured with the tegmina maroon brown on the basal half and apically hyaline with some spotting. It was described from "Queensland" but is reasonably common in the Sydney Basin of New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Body and legs dull ochraceous; vertex of head with a central black line; pronotum with a testaceous tint; mesonotum with the disk strongly blackly punctate and with black and testaceous markings at each basal angle; face with a curved line at base, spots on lateral margins, and confluent punctate impressions on disk black; clypeus with a large black discal spot; femora and anterior and intermediate tibiae annulated with black or piceous; tegmina with more than basal half dull purplish brown, opaque, three linear spots in apical area of costal membrane and some obscure markings in claval area piceous; apical area hyaline, the venation purplish brown, with some piceous spots, of which the largest are one at end of opaque coloration and two before apical margin; wings hyaline, the venation fuscous brown, extreme base ochraceous; head broadly extending beyond eyes, the vertex excavate, with the margins ridged; pronotum with a central ridge, the margins carinate; mesonotum centrally tricarinate, the lateral carinations posteriorly curved inward; face centrally tricarinate; rostrum almost reaching abdominal apex; posterior tibiae with six spines. Long., excl. tegm., 13 mm; exp. tegm. 34 mm (Distant 1906).

Photographs of the species are available at http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/species/erilla.htm and in Nagai & Porion (1996: Pl. 3, fig. 49).

Diagnosis References

Nagai, S. & Porion, T. 1996. Fulgoridae 2. Catalogue illustré des faunes asiatique et australienne. 2 rue André Mellenne, 60280 Venette, France : Sciences Nat pp. 80. [22; Pl. 3 fig. 49]

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