Species Ricania binotata Walker, 1870

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• Ricania binotata Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 82-193 [149].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, New Guinea.

Introduction

This species is widespread in SW Pacific rim from Japan to New Guinea. The Australian record comes from Schmidt (1905) who listed two females simply from Queensland (coll.: 15.v.1888), with no further locality details. Walker (1870) also described a var. ß from Aru island in eastern Indonesia.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Tawny, testaceous beneath. Head with slightly prominent borders; vertex short; front rounded on each side, much broader than long, with three slight keels, which terminate near the face in a slight transverse keel, the keel on each side curved outward; face small, not keeled. Prothorax four times as broad as long, convex and slightly elevated in front, with one keel. Mesothorax with five keels, the inner pair diverging hindward from the middle one, the outer pair much abbreviated hindward. Legs stout, short; femora and tibiae keeled. Wings broad. Fore wings piceous, tawny at the base, with very numerous veins; three lines of transverse veins; first one much bent inward; third regular, submarginal; transverse costal veins numerous, regular, one of them forked, as is also one of the marginal veins; a white oblique costal spot beyond the middle, and a round subapical black spot. Hind wings blackish cinereous, with one incomplete line of transverse veins, and with one forked marginal vein. Length of the body 2½ lines, of the wings 8 lines (Walker 1870).

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected in the Indian Archipelago by Mr A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 82-193 [149]

General References

Schmidt, E. 1905. Die Ricaniiden des Stettiner Museums. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 66: 168-198 [173]

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