Species Rhotana ramentosa Distant, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhotana ramentosa Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [409].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

Introduction

The original description indicates simply that the type material was from Queensland but 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 materail originated in this region.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Body very pale testaceous, more or less greyishly tomentose; eyes black; legs stramineous; tegmina subhyaline, talc-like, more or less iridescent, the veins ochraceous, the series of transverse veins separating the apical areas, and most of the apical veins, broadly ochraceous, costal area pale, with two dark costal marginal spots, one before and one at apex, a small dark spot on costal margin above the series of transverse subapical veins, and another beneath these veins on inner margin, a similar small spot on apical margin, a transverse creamy-white spot in costal area beyond middle; wings pale hyaline; tegmina with the transverse subapical series of veins posteiorly curved and terminating near apex of clavus; apical areas short. Long., excl. tegm., 4 mm; exp. tegm. 12 mm (Distant 1907)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [409]

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]

History of changes