Species Makula ornata Distant, 1907

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

  Type data:

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

Introduction

This species was described simply from "Queensland" but it was collected by F.P. Dodd, the Butterfly Man of Kuranda, who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and it is presumed that the type series originated there. The species is small and pale with dark elongate markings on the tegmen.

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

Head, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath, and legs stramineous; abdomen above fuscous, the lateral areas and apex stramineous; tegmina greyish white, subhyaline, a large oblique spot before middle, commencing near inner margin and terminating at lower margin of radial area, a small streak on costal margin beyond middle, and a broken apical spot which is more faintly continued to inner margin, fuscous or piceous, on the area of these apical fuscous suffusions the veins are sanguineous; wings pale hyaline. Long. excl. tegm., 2 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 [408–409]

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]

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