Species Dardus bufo (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurybrachys bufo Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [393].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (presented by the Haslar Hospital, holotype by monotypy), New Holland.

Generic Combinations

• Dardus bufo (Walker, 1851). —
  Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 19(9): 479-504 [488]

Introduction

The holotype needs to be examined to establish the identity of this species. Walker (1851) has indicated that his specimen was a male by adding "Mas." after the name.

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Body black, slightly varied with red, very short, broad and thick; head as broad as the fore-chest; crown depressed, straight in front, slightly concave on the hind border, bordered with red, with a red spot on each side of the disk; its breadth about six times its length; front slightly rugulose, much broader than long, angular on each side, very concave where it joins the epistoma, with a very slender curve on each side near the eye; epistome nearly triangular, ferruginous, slightly keeled; fore-chest a little longer than the crown, nearly straight behind, slightly convex on the fore border; middle-chest triangular, more than twice the length of the fore-chest, bordered with red, and having three red ridges, the side pair oblique; breast red; abdomen red beneath, obconical, not longer than the chest; legs black, very broad, slightly marked with red; hind-thighs and hind-shanks red, the latter armed with three teeth; forewings black, mostly ferruginous towards the hind border, adorned with a white spot in the middle of the fore border and with two colourless spots near the tip; fore border convex near the base, concave towards the tip; veins ferruginous. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 5 lines. (Walker 1851)

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [393–394]

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