Species Gedrosia varia (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurybrachys varia 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. [394].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown (presented by the Haslar Hospital; holotype by monotypy), New Holland.

Generic Combinations

• Gedrosia varia (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 single specimen of this species needs to be examined and redescribed to enable the species to be identified. Nothing is known of its biology or distribution within Australia.

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

"Body black, varied with red; head narrower than the chest; crown somewhat depressed, very slightly arched, bordered with red; its breadth about four times its length; front very large, a little broader than long, rather depressed, much rounded on each side, angular where it joins the epistoma, with a slight longitudinal ridge which is traversed by a furrow; fore border red; epistoma ferruginous, triangular; eyes very prominent; fore-chest slightlhy convex on the fore border, straight behind, a little longer than the crown; middle-chest triangular, longer than the fore-chest; hind chest and abdomen bright red; abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest; sexual appendages black; legs black, very broad; hind-thighs red, striped with black and with a black band near the tips; hind-shanks ferruginous, armed with three stout spines; fore-wings black, horizontal, narrow especially towards the tips, slightly tuberculate, bristly, partly red towards the base, with a tawny band in the middle and a colourless band near the tip, the bands irregular and accompanied by some dots of their respective colours; veins tawny and black, few and very robust; hind wings wanting? Length of the body 1 line; of the wings 4 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. [394]

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