Species Rigula naumanni Day, 1999
Compiler and date details
11 April 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Rigula naumanni Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [709].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 9-19.v.1983, I.D. Naumann), Lone Dingo, Mitchell Plateau, Western Australia [14°35'S 125°45'E].
Introduction
This species is only known from the holotype male from the North Kimberley region of Western Australia. It was named for the collector, Dr I.D. Naumann.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Northern Kimberley (NK)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Finely punctate, setae minute. Face dark, adult uniformly dark. Lateral pronotal processes wide, blunt, erect and longitudinally strongly ridged. Subcostal cell dark, tegmen with dark spots near apex. Median pronotal process tip depressed apically. Length (holotype ♂) 4.5 mm (Day 1999).
Diagnosis References
Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [709]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 16-May-2012 | 16-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 26-Apr-2012 | 26-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |