Species Galela parva Distant, 1906

Galela parva Distant, adult from Barrow Island, Western Australia

© Copyright Christopher Taylor / Jonathan Majer, Curtin University, WA.

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• Galela parva 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), Cossack, Western Australia.

Introduction

This is the smaller of two Australian species of Galela and distinguished by the orange patch at the base of the hindwing being margined with black. It was described from Cossack, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and has recently also been found on Barrow Island.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Pilbara (PIL)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum, mesonotum, body beneath and legs pale brownish ochraceous, with small darker mottlings; metanotum piceous; abdomen above dark orange-yellow or pale testaceous; legs obscurely annulated with pale fuscous, the anterior tibiae prominently annulated with dark fuscous; tegmina with about basal half testaceous, opaque, with paler spots, apical half hyaline, with the venation dark olivaceous and with a number of dark fuscous spots, of which two on disk are largest; wings hyaline, the venation fuscous, the apex more palely infuscate, basal third bright orange-yellow, outwardly broadly margined with black, the area at anal angle fuscous; head with the anterior area of vertex prominent and rugouse; pronotum with a central ridge and cordately anteriorly produced, the process marginally ridged and traversed by the medial ridge; face with two strong central longitudinal ridges, between which is a finer and more obsolete central ridge; clypeus obliquely striate on each side; posterior tibiae with four spines; rostrum passing the posterior coxae. Long., excl. tegm., 9–10 mm; exp. tegm. 21–27 mm (Distant 1906).

Nagai & Porion (1996, Pl 3, fig. 40) provide photographic image of a syntype (which they erroneously call a paratype).

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. [20; Pl. 3, fig. 40]

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