Species Galela abdominalis Distant, 1906

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• Galela abdominalis Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal Notes. xxxviii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 18-32 [27].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (J.J. Walker), Parry Harbour, Cape Bougainville, Western Australia.

Introduction

This is the larger of the two Australian species of the genus and lacks the black margin around the orange patch at the base of the hindwing. It was described from "Parry Harbour, Cape Bougainville" in the North Kimberley bioregion of Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Northern Kimberley (NK)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum, mesonotum, body beneath, and legs pale brownish ochraceous, somewhat strongly mottled with piceous; metanotum much suffused with piceous; abdomen above testaceous red, with a segmental series of large black spots on each side; apices of femora and annulations to anterior and intermediate tibiae black; tegmina with rather less than basal half pale brownish testaceous, opaque, remaining area hyaline, with the venation and a number of scattered spots fuscous; wings hyaline, the venation and apical margin fuscous, and with a broad basal patch of orange-yellow confined to uppaer half of wing; head with a rounded rugose piceous prominence on anterior area of vertex, and a foveate spot on each side of base of vertex; pronotum with a strong central carination and the margins of the anterior prolongation also ridged; face with two prominent central black ridges, between which is a finer and more obscure ridge, and on each side a submarginal black line; rostrum very slightly passing the posterior coxae; posterior tibiae with four spines, those on apical half much the longest. Long., excl. tegm., 13 mm; exp. tegm 32 mm (Distant 1906).

Nagai & Porion (1996, Pl. 3, fig. 37) provide a photographic image of a specimen which they call the "type".

ID Keys

Lallemand 1963: 50

Diagnosis References

Lallemand, V. 1963. Revision des Fulgoridae (Homoptera). Deuxième partie. Faunes Asiatique et Australienne. Memoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 2nd Series 75: 1-99 [49–50]

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. [Pl. 3 fig. 37]

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