Species Tomaloides shepherdi Evans, 1972
Compiler and date details
29 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Tomaloides shepherdi Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [178].
Type data:
Holotype AM K69236 ♂ (coll.: F.W. Shepherd), Broken Hill, New South Wales.
Introduction
This small dark species is only known from the type locality, Broken Hill in western New South Wales. It is named after the collector, F.W. Shepherd who is presumably the same person as F.W. Shephard, after whom Chinaella shephardi is named. One of these spellings must be incorrect.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW: Broken Hill Complex (BHC)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
General coloration black mottled with brown. Head and pronotum black. Scutellum black with a pair of reddish brown spots. Tegmen proximally black, distally pale brown mottled with brown, with three hyaline or white anteapical cells; appendix smoky with brown markings. Ventral surface of thorax and abdomen black, hind margin of each abdominal segment narrowly brown. Length ♂ 4 mm, ♀ 4.5 mm (Evans 1972).
Evans (1972) also provided an illustration of the male genitalia.
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [178]
History of changes
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