Species Protinotus doddi (Distant, 1916)

Museums

Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: vii.1903, F.P. Dodd), Townsville, Queensland.

  Type locality 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 [347].

 

Generic Combinations

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

 

Introduction

This species is based on a single female from Townsville, North Queensland. Day (1999) considered that more material may reveal that it should be placed in Pogonella Evans, which would make Protinotus an objective junior synonym of Pogonella.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum fuscous brown, palely pilose, frontal pronotal area and face very longly and densely palely pilose; lateral areas of sternum and the scutellum pale ochraceous; legs pale brownish, shortly pilose; tegmina pale hyaline, wrinkled, the prominent veins dull ochraceous, basal area fuscous and pilose; pronotum very strongly centrally carinate, the anterior lateral processes broad at base, subacute at apices, directed outwardly and a little upwardly, the apices slightly recurved, posterior process robust, beyond middle narrowing to apex, a little convexly raised at base, impinging on tegmina beyond scutellum, the apex passing the posterior angle of the inner tegminal margin. 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 [40]

 

General References

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

 

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)