Species Sephena quintena Medler, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sephena quintena Medler, J.T. 2001. Flatidae of New Guinea and adjacent areas (Homoptera: Flatidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 8: 1-117 [57].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: iv.1904, F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

This species is only known from a male and a female from the wet tropics of North Queensland and a female from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Frons U-carinae merged with intergenal transverse carina to form anterior margin of head, no vertex. Tegmen elongate parabolic, strong crease in membrane curving from claval apex to costal margin, very faint indication of submarginal line; three longitudinal veins arising from basal stem, no R+S stem. Tegmen tinged light green, margins strongly red, no red spots, thin fuscous line on sutural margin of clavus, pair of wide light fuscous longitudinal bands on mesonotum (Medler 2001).

ID Keys

Medler 2001: 41–44

Diagnosis References

Medler, J.T. 2001. Flatidae of New Guinea and adjacent areas (Homoptera: Flatidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 8: 1-117 [57]

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