Species Ricania consanguinea Distant, 1909

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• Ricania consanguinea Distant, W.L. 1909. Rhynchota Notes. xlix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(4): 320-338 [323].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, Queensland.

Introduction

This species was described, with an unnamed colour variant, from "Queensland" but the specimen(s) was collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (see Monteith 1991) and it is assumed that the type series came from that region.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum brownish ochraceous; mesonotum piceous; abdomen above piceous, the base and apex more or less ochraceous; face, clypeus, body beneath, and legs pale ochraceous; tegmina black with two oblique white fasciae, the innermost extending from a little beneath claval suture to near the lower apex of the radial area, the outermost between the first and the apical margin, broadly inwardly notched above middle, and attenuated near costal margin, on costal membrane above innermost fascia is a white spot with a much smaller one near its outer apex; base of clavus, part of basal cell, and extreme base of costal membrane more or less ochraceous; wings pale fuscous, the outer and inner margins darker fuscous and the basal area whitish; face obscurely centrally and sublaterally carinate; pronotum centrally longitudinally carinate; mesonotum tricarinate, the central carination straight and continuous, the lateral carinations angularly anteriorly narrowed inwardly and near their middle connected by a straight carinate line with the anterior margin.
Var.—Head and pronotum paler and more greyish ; groundcolour of tegmina greyish brown, not black.
Long., excl. tegm., 7 mm.; exp. tegm. 21 to 22 mm. (Distant 1909).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1909. Rhynchota Notes. xlix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(4): 320-338 [323–324]

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] [1]

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