Species Otinotoides spicatus Distant, 1916
Compiler and date details
9 April 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Otinotoides spicatus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [42].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: ix.1904, F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland
Comment: Distant (1916) gave the type data as "Queensland (F.P. Dodd)". Broomfield (1971) provided additional details from the specimen labels.
Introduction
The identity of this species needs to be determined. It is only known from the type locality in the wet tropics of North Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head and pronotum fuscous brown, obscurely, shortly, palely pilose; body beneath and legs fuscous brown; lateral areas of the sternum and basal angles of the scutellum palely ochraceously tomentose; tegmina more or less fuscous brown, the central portion of claval area with somewhat obscure brassy reflections; pronotum punctate and shortly obscurely pilose, strongly centrally carinate, the lateral processes broad and somewhat flattened on basal areas, subacute at apices, outwardly and a little upwardly directed, their apices distinctly recurved, posterior process somewhat slender, its apical half roundly deflected, the apex acute and passing the posterior angle of the inner tegminal margin, but not reaching the tegminal apices; basal, costal, and subcostal areas of the tegmina punctate. Long., incl. tegm., 6 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 4 mm (Distant 1916).
Diagnosis References
Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [42]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 16-May-2012 | 16-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 26-Apr-2012 | 26-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |