Species Sextius atromaculatus Distant, 1916

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Species Sextius atromaculatus Distant, 1916

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11 April 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher

Sextius atromaculatus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [35].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

Introduction

The type locality of this species was given simply as Queensland by Distant (1916) and Broomfield (1971) but Day (1999) indicated that it was Cooktown without justification. The type specimen was collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and it is likely that the specimen originated from this region.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Pronotum pale virescent, anterior area between the lateral angles pale purplish red; legs ochraceous; sternum greyishly tomentose; tegmina very pale virescent, the apex pale brownish, a large black spot on upper basal area; pronotum thickly finely punctate, centrally finely carinate, the anterior lateral processes short, broad, obtusely prominent, the posterior process passing the posterior angle of the inner tegminal margin, but not reaching the tegminal apex; apical angles of tegmina reticulate. Long., incl. tegm., 5½–-6mm; exp. lat. pronot. process. 3 mm (Distant 1916).