Species Rentzia yarla Day, 1999

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• Rentzia yarla Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [705].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (coll.: 12.ii.1988, in pan trap, D.F.C. Rentz), Yungaburra, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Ficus sp. [MORACEAE]

 

Introduction

This species is known from four male and 1 female specimens from the wet tropics of North Queensland. The species name is derived from an Aboriginal word for "true".

 

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.

Extra Ecological Information

Known host: Curtain Fig (Moraceae).

 

Diagnosis

Large, robust, dark, markedly setose membracid with broad lateral pronotal processes, angular at apex; clypeal lobes well developed; gena evenly rounded; tegmen hyaline, dark brown at apex, apically acute, veins concolorous and conspicuous; hind tibia slender. Length (holotype ♀) 8.7 mm (Day 1999).

 

Diagnosis References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [705]

 

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)