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Australian Faunal Directory

<i>Neovulturnus vanduzeei</i> (Kirkaldy), adult.

Neovulturnus vanduzeei (Kirkaldy), adult.

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Species Neovulturnus vanduzeei (Kirkaldy, 1907)


Compiler and date details

29 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Generic Combinations

 

Introduction

This beautifully marked species is found in the Sydney region of New South Wales. Evans (1947) gave its distribution as Queensland but this appears to have been in error as the type series was from Sydney.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Allied to V vulturnus but the margin of the head is not acute anteriorly, and the anterior margin immediately in front of the eyes is not (or not noticeably) divergent, before curving upwards and inwards. Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum ivory white, more or less tinged with greenish, the vertex with a few scattered brownish specks; pronotum obscurely mottled with greenish brown, sometimes with a whitening medio-transversely. Face black except for a few red brown marks and the ivory-white basal margin. Sterna and pleura black (except for the more or less pale exterior half of propleura). Tegmina ivory white tinged with green, veins and incomplete veins brownish. Fore legs pale, others mostly blackish; bristles pale. Sternites and genital segment pale or dark varyingly. Male: pygophors a little more than twice as long as last segment which is bisinuate. Length 4-4½ mm. The nymphs are not specially remarkable (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 31-Oct-2013 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 16-May-2012 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 01-Jun-2011 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)