Species Scolypopa aphrophoroides (Walker, 1862)

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• Dechitus aphrophoroides Walker, F. 1862. Characters of undescribed species of Homoptera in the collection of F.P. Pascoe, F.L.S. Journal of Entomology A 1: 303-319 [311].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (F.P. Pascoe collection), Moreton Bay, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Scolypopa aphrophoroides (Walker, 1862). —
  Melichar, L. 1923. Homoptera. Fam. Acanaloniidae, Flatidae et Ricaniidae. Genera Insectorum 182: 1-185 [142]

Introduction

This species is unknown to the compiler. It was described from male and female specimens from Moreton Bay in SE Queensland but Jacobi (1928) reported a single female from Noonkanbah, which is in Western Australia. This record must be regarded as unconfirmed until further specimens, particularly a male, can be found.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Female. Dull pale tawny. Vertex and prothorax slightly marked with brown. Front pale yellow. Mesothorax darker tawny, piceous in front and on each side. Abdomen dingy whitish at the base. Fore wings cinereous hyaline; costal space brown (the brown hue extending partly to the disc), wth transverse dingy whitish marks, of which one is quadrate and much larger and more distinct than the others; apical space with very numerous brown points, of which many are confluent. Hind wings cinereous hyaline, broadly but diffusedly bordered with brownish hyaline. Male. Fore wings wholly varied with brown, which forms irregular bands; costal marks cinereous hyaline, not whitish. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 8 lines (Walker 1862).

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1862. Characters of undescribed species of Homoptera in the collection of F.P. Pascoe, F.L.S. Journal of Entomology A 1: 303-319 [311]

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