Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Museums

Regional Maps

Species Ipoides translucens Evans, 1934


Compiler and date details

26 August 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This species is unknown to the compiler. It is only known from the type series of two specimens from Townsville, Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head greyish buff but for the maxillary plates and lorae which are evenly mottled with dark brown and yellow. Pronotum and scutellum grey mottled with dark brown. Tegmen transparent with two brown spots against the hind margin of the clavus; veins pale brown with white bars; appendix continuing narrowly around the apex of the tegmen. Thorax ventral surface black. Legs, proximal part of femora black, distal part yellowish; tibiae yellowish, the apices of the hind tibiae black. Abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Male subgenital plates recurved at apices; aedeagus simple. Length 4 mm, head width 1.7 mm (Evans 1934).

 

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)
05-Dec-2019 02-Dec-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)