Species Sikaiana maculosa Distant, 1907

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• Sikaiana maculosa Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [399].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

Introduction

This species was described simply from "Queensland" but the type material was collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and it is probable that the material originated here.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Head with the margins of vertex greyish white, the eyes dark castaneous; pronotum very pale tawny; mesonotum pale tawny brown, the carinations greyish; abdomen above and beneath ochraceous, with some castaneous suffusions, especially on the lateral areas; sternum and legs stramineous; tegmina and wings pale hyaline with some opaline reflections; tegmina with the base narrowly pale ochraceous, terminating in a subbasal fuscous spot on costal area, a somewhat large fuscous spot before apex of costal area, another near apex, a series of smaller fuscous spots on apical margin, and a still smaller spot on upper vein of radial area; wings with some subapical marginal spots; antennae robust, ochraceous, third joint infuscate. Long., excl. tegm, 2 mm; exp. 10 mm (Distant 1907).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [399–400]

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]

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