Species Humgar insulum Medler, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Humgar insulum Medler, J.T. 2001. Flatidae of New Guinea and adjacent areas (Homoptera: Flatidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 8: 1-117 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll.: A.M. Lea & C.T. McNamara), Thursday Island, Queensland.

Introduction

This species is unknown to the compiler. It was described from three males and five females from Thursday Island and Prince of Wales Island in Torres Strait and is the only species in the genus.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head acutely projecting, frons with diagnostic pattern of five carinae. Vertex/pronotum ratio = 1.20–1.25. Apex of vertex red, wide red band along longitudinal carina of pro- and mesonotum, front tibiae and tarsi red. Markings of tegmina testaceous, red rectangular spots at vein terminals along precostal, apical and sutural margins; white spots in cells; vaguely arranged in two narrow oblique bands in apical area of tegmen (Medler 2001)

Diagnosis References

Medler, J.T. 2001. Flatidae of New Guinea and adjacent areas (Homoptera: Flatidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 8: 1-117 [28]

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