Species Kuranda notata Distant, 1907

Kuranda notata Distant, adult male

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Kuranda notata Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [407].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

A delicate pale-coloured derbid with a line of four small dark spots along the centre of the tegmen. Distant (1907) also noted that there was a colour variant which had an irregular dark stripe on the tegmen as well as the spots. This indicates that the type series comprised more than one specimen. The species has only been identified from Kuranda, in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Body and legs pale ochraceous, eyes and antennae black; tegmina very pale creamy ochraceous, with four piceous spots, the smallest near base, two discal and one near apical margin; wings pale hyaline. Var.— Tegmina with an irregular piceous fascia extending from the basal spot to near apex of inner margin. Long. excl. tegm. 3.5 mm; exp. tegm. 10 mm (Distant 1907)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [407–408]

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