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Species Harmalia ostorius (Kirkaldy, 1907)


Compiler and date details

13 December 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This species was described from a series of specimens from Cairns in the wet tropics of North Queensland, the males being macropterous and the females brachypterous.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head dorsally longer than broad. vertex with a keel down the middle. Scutellum about twice as long as pronotum. Tibial spur with about 23 spines, hind tarsi with first segment longer than the other two. Long-winged male: dark fuscous or blackish brown, with pale keels, legs, etc. Tegmina dark fuscous, subhyaline, immaculate, with 7 apical cells, the third apical vein being also forked, veins very feebly granulate. Short-winged female: similar in appearance to [Delphax thyestes Kirkaldy], but the frons is long and narrow, slightly and gradually narrowing basally. Lateral keels of pronotum not curved under the eyes, but reaching posterior margin of pronotum. Tegmina immaculate, apically broadly rounded, reaching to about one-half of the entire length of the insect. First antennal segment about one-half of the length of the second. Male pygophor rounded at the end, the dorsal margin produced at each side, the produced part flattened and bent over at the end. The genital styles are compressed, the apices somewhat acute and bent. Length 2 3/4 (brach.), 4 (macr.) mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
20-May-2011 20-May-2011 MODIFIED
16-Dec-2010 16-Dec-2010 MOVED
15-Dec-2010 15-Dec-2010 MOVED
29-Apr-2011 13-Dec-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)