Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

<i>Neovulturnus hackeri</i> (Evans), adult.

Neovulturnus hackeri (Evans), adult.

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Species Neovulturnus hackeri (Evans, 1937)


Compiler and date details

28 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This species is distributed along the eastern coastline of mainland Australia from the wet tropics of North Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales. It is pale and beautifully marked with mid and dark brown. Ventrally it is mainly black.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventrally black but for the overhanging thickened ledge which is pale yellowish brown. Dorsal surface very pale yellowish brown mottled with brown; ocelli large. Pronotum dark brown with yellowish grey maculations. Scutellum yellow with dark brown markings. Tegmen silvery white, reticulate between the veins, the reticulations dark brown and black. Appendix and supplementary appendix, pale hyaline brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black. Legs fore femora brown, fore tibiae pale brown, the rest of the legs black, but for the spines on the hind tibiae, which are pale yellowish brown. Length 3.8 mm (Evans 1937).

 

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 01-Nov-2013 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 16-May-2012 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 01-Jun-2011 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)