Species Erythroneura harmsi Izzard, 1936

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• Erythroneura harmsi Izzard, R.J. 1936. The Hemiptera of Christmas Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 17: 577-600 [600].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ ♀, quantities unknown (coll: 1933, F. Harms), Christmas Island, Shore Terrace.
  Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, quantities unknown (coll: i–iv.1933, F. Harms), Christmas Island.

Introduction

This species was described from a series of specimens from Christmas Island. It is unknown to the compiler. Its placement in the genus Erythroneura Fitch is incorrect.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

Diagnosis

Head flavescent; eyes brownish, becoming darker at their inner angles. pronotum flavescent; scutellum brownish; meso- and metapleura uniformly stramineous. Tegmina semihyaline whitish, veins slightly darker; wings hyaline with a bluish tinge, veins whitish. Legs pale yellow, extreme apices of tarsi brown; abdomen pale yellow. Ocelli absent, head slightly narrower than pronotum across humeral angles, a little longer in middle than length at eyes and somewhat less than width between eyes; face longer than wide, the frons more than three times longer than clypeus. Scutellum triangular with a median transverse sulcation. Tegmina extending beyond apex of abdomen, venation normal; last ventrite (♀) posteriorly truncate. Total length 2.37 mm; width across humeral angels 0.5 mm (Izzard 1936).

Izzard (1936) provided illustrations of the fore- and hindwings and a dorsal view of the male genitalia.

Diagnosis References

Izzard, R.J. 1936. The Hemiptera of Christmas Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 17: 577-600 [599, 600]

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