Species Rhotana septemmaculata Distant, 1907

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Regional Maps

• Rhotana septemmaculata Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [410].

  Type data:

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

Introduction

This species was described from an unknown number of specimens from "Queensland". However, the material 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 this was the source of the material.

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 and legs pale ochraceous, beneath a little paler than above; tegmina and wings pale hyaline, talc-like, the venation ochraceous; tegmina with a broad, outwardly angulate, pale ochraceous fascia at about one third from base, and two narrow, transverse, subapical, pale fuscous fasciae, a cluster of about seven prominent black spots, which are somewhat arranged in two longitudinal series on inner apical area. Long., excl. tegm., 2.5 mm; exp. tegm. 9 mm (Distant 1907).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [410]

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]

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