Species Jukaruka typica Distant, 1907
Compiler and date details
22 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Jukaruka typica Distant, W.L. 1907. Contributions to a knowledge of the Ledrinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 185-197 [190].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 2 ♂ (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.
Introduction
This species was based on two males collected in Queensland by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and it is probable that this is the source of the material.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Ochraceous, much mottled with black and piceous; body beneath and legs stramineous; face black; vertex of head piceous brown coarsely punctate, each lateral area before eyes greyish with dark punctures, apical margin narrowly carmine-red, the central carination sharply prominent; pronotum ochraceous, punctate, the central laminate ridge and some irregular transverse fasciae black or piceous; face black, narrowed anteriorly where on each side is a marginal carmine-red spot posteriorly bordered with black; tibiae outwardly speckled with fuscous; tegmina piceous, inner basai margin and apical area to clavus pale testaceous; the whole apical area of tegmen pale subhyaline with the reticulate veins piceous. Long. incl. tegm. 10 mm. (Distant 1907).
Diagnosis References
Distant, W.L. 1907. Contributions to a knowledge of the Ledrinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 185-197 [190]
General References
Monteith, G.B. 1991. The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. South Brisbane : Queensland Museum 1, 34 pp. [ISBN 0 7242 4481 6] [1]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 02-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |