Species Ouwea doddi Distant, 1907

Ouwea doddi Distant, adult

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ouwea doddi Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 277-295 [292].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂♀, quantity unknown (coll: F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland.
• Spendon flavonotatus Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [26].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NHRM ♀ (coll.: VI), Malanda, Queensland; NHRM ♀ (coll.: VI), Malanda, Queensland; NHRM ♀ (coll.: VI), Malanda, Queensland; NHRM ♀ (coll.: VI), Malanda, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [42] (Synonymy of Spendon flavonotatus Jacobi)

Generic Combinations

• Catonidia doddi (Distant, 1907). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1950. A generic revision of the Achilidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1(1): 1-170 [42]

Introduction

A large achilid which appears to be reasonably common in a fairly restricted area of the wet tropics of N. Queensland. It is a strikingly beautiful insect, its main colouring being dark brown with pale contrasting venation and yellowish patches although these patches fade in pinned specimens.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: sap-feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Body brownish ochraceous, paler beneath than above; mesonotum with three longitudinal ochraceous lines above the obscure carinations, its lateral and apical margins ochraceous; first and second abdominal segments above more or less ochraceous; face and sternum mottled with ochraceous and castaneous; legs very pale ochraceous, femora obsoletely annuulated with brownish; tegmina bronzy ochraceous, beyond middle becoming darker between the veins, three large posts in costal area, a large sublunulate apical spot, some spots near posterior angle of inner margin, two spots in claval area and a discal spot, greyish white; wings fuliginous brown, the basal area very much paler and subhyaline. Long., excl. tegm., ♂ 7, ♀ 8 mm; exp. tegm., ♂ 20–21, ♀ 25 mm. (Distant 1907)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 277-295 [292]

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