Species Otinotoides intermedius Distant, 1916

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• Otinotoides intermedius Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [41].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: 19.ii.1884, Tepper), Largs Bay, South Australia
  Comment: Broomfield (1971) identified eight paralectotypes, six female and two lacking the abdomen. Distant (1916) included Gayndah and Peak Downs, both in Queensland, in his list of localities.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Broomfield, P.S. 1971. A catalogue of the Membracid types (Homoptera : Membracidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 25: 327-386 [356].

 

Introduction

The identity of this species needs to be established. Distant's (1916) original description included Largs Bay, South Australia and two localities in Queensland. Day (1999) noted that specimens attributed to this species in SAM from South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania may not be Otinotoides.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum testaceous brown, obscurely, thickly, shortly, palely pilose; body beneath and legs testaceous brown; lateral areas of the sternum and basal angles of scutellum palely ochraceously tomentose; tegmina subhyaline, most of the venation, basal portions of the costal and subcostal areas, and the base testaceous brown; pronotum punctate, centrally carinate, the lateral processes robust, upwardly and outwardly directed, their apices obtusely acute and a little recurved, their margins distinctly carinate, posterior process tricarinate, robust, touching the scutellum, above which it is a little convexly elevated, its apical half roundly deflected, its apex almost reaching the tegminal apices, the dark areas of the tegmina punctate. Long., incl. tegm., 5 mm. ; exp. lat. pronot. process. 3 mm (Distant 1916).

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [41–42]

 

General References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [693]

 

History of changes

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