Species Protinotus albosignatus (Distant, 1916)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Otinotus albosignatus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [40].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Protinotus albosignatus (Distant, 1916). —
  Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [702]

 

Introduction

The holotype of this species is badly damaged (Day 1999) and it was not possible to determine its identity with certainty. It was collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and it is probable that the specimen originated in that region.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum castaneous; legs brownish ochraceous; basal angles of scutellum and lateral areas of sternum whitely tomentose; tegmina pale bronzy brown, the apical margin a little darker, the venation prominent; pronotum thickly coarsely punctate, strongly centrally carinate, the posterior process tricarinate, the anterior lateral processes long, broad at base, subacute at apices, directed obliquely upwardly, apices not recurved, posterior process nearly straight, beyond scutellum impinging on tegmina, the apex acute, passing the posterior angle of inner tegminal margin, but not reaching the tegminal apices. Long,, incl. tegm., 7 mm, ; exp. lat, pronot, process. 4½ mm. (Distant 1916).

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [40]

 

General References

Monteith, G.B. 1991. The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. South Brisbane : Queensland Museum 1, 34 pp. [ISBN 0 7242 4481 6] [1]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)