Species Eufairmairia distinctus Distant, 1916

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• Eufairmairia distinctus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Port Darwin, Northern Territory.

 

Introduction

This is the only species of the genus known to occur in the Northern Territory. It is quite distinctive with the posterior process of the pronotum more robust than in other species.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum black; sternum much suffused with greyish pubescence; legs black, more or less greyishly pubescent; interior angle of sternum and the scutellum pale ochraceous; tegmina pale bronzy with darker suffusions, base black immediately followed by an obscure pale transverse fascia; pronotum thickly punctate and strongly, centrally, longitudinally carinate, the lateral processes broad, outwardly and a little upwardiy directed, their apices roundly truncate but with the posterior angle acute, the upper surface with three strong longitudinal carinations, posterior process very robust and compressed for about two thirds its length from base, where its upper surface is also convex, its apical area attenuated and reaching the posterior angle of the inner tegminal margin, its broad lateral margins with two strong carinations; ocelli about as near to eyes as to each other; clypeus strongly greyishly pilose. Long., incl. tegm., 7 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 5 mm. (Distant 1916).

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [38]

 

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)