Species Hishimonus festivus Knight, 1970
Compiler and date details
19 April 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Hishimonus festivus Knight, W.J. 1970. A revision of the genus Hishimonus Ishihara. Suomen Hyönteistieteellinen Aikakauskirja 36(3): 125-139 [134].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 1.iv.1933), Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.
Introduction
This species is endemic to Christmas Island and is most closely related to H. alstoni from Indonesia: Sulawesi.
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Other Regions
Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head, pronotum and scutellum pale yellow. Forewings with medial spot pale and indistinct. Male genitalia with stem of connective elongate, equal in length to arms; aedeagus with shafts expanded apically into short anteriorly directed triangular lobe and a dorsally directed finger-like process, gonopore subapical on posterior surface. Length ♂ 3.32 mm, ♀ 3.92 mm (Knight 1970).
ID Keys
Knight 1970: 127–128
Diagnosis References
Knight, W.J. 1970. A revision of the genus Hishimonus Ishihara. Suomen Hyönteistieteellinen Aikakauskirja 36(3): 125-139 [134]
History of changes
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| 19-Apr-2012 | ADDED |