Species Paurostauria delicata Kirby, 1900

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• Paurostauria delicata Kirby, W.F. 1900. Homoptera. pp. 130-138 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [133].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3 ♂, Christmas Island.

Introduction

This species is unknown to the author of these pages. It is one of two ricaniid planthoppers endemic to Christmas Island.

Distribution

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Long. corp. 3 mm; exp. tegm. 10 mm; lat. tegm. 3 mm. Male — Testaceous (probably green when living as the abdomen is still green in one of the specimens); eyes and vertex brown. Tegmina hyaline, with most of the nervures yellow, except in the dark portions. Marginal area brown, broadest at the apex. An oval, subapical black spot, below which a hyaline curved stripe runs down to the inner margin; the brown band within this is bissected by the light cross-nervules marking off the marginal area. Costa with a black line, commencing at about half the length of the costal cell, and curving round the end of the subcostal cell; it also throws off an expanding pear-shaped black spot, running downwards to half the width of the tegmen, beside the marginal markings. Between these black markings, the costa, and the subapical spot, the wing is brown with hyaline markings. The subcostal nervure is broadly black above, narrowly edged with yellow below, and the upper longitudinal nervure is marked with a large black spot in the middle. The curved dividing line in the middle of the tegmen is edged outside with black, and a series of irregular black markings is continued to the inner margin. Nearer the base are two or three more small black spots, and the greater part of the lower vein of the clavus is broadly black (Kirby 1900).

Diagnosis References

Kirby, W.F. 1900. Homoptera. pp. 130-138 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [133]

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