Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

<I>Neovulturnus vaedulcis </I>(Kirkaldy), adult.

Neovulturnus vaedulcis (Kirkaldy), adult.

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Species Neovulturnus vaedulcis (Kirkaldy, 1907)


Compiler and date details

29 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Generic Combinations

 

Introduction

This beautifully enamelled species is highly variable in colour and reasonably common along the eastern coastal parts of mainland Australia from near Cairns in North Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales and inland as far as Orange NSW. The male was described as V. vaedulcis while the female was described as V. vappa Kirkaldy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Black; vertex, pronotum and scutellum thickly speckled with pale yellowish brown. Frons margined basally with yellowish. Tegmina pale yellowish brown heavily veined and marked with black; apex of costal cell and of the adjoining subapical white, spotshaped. Fore legs and bristles, &c., of the others, more or less pale. Vertex not longer than pronotum, rounded in front. Length 3–3¼ mm. Nymph: Vertex laterally spinose just above the eyes (Kirkaldy 1907).

V. vappa — Very close to V. vaedulcis, but paler and broader. Tegmina with a large colourless patch on the costa, &c.; apical parts largely colourless. Length 4 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907)

 

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