Species Tropiphlepsia badia Muir, 1924

Tropiphlepsia badia Muir, adult

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tropiphlepsia badia Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Ho.2755 ♀ (coll.: x.1917, H. Hacker), Brisbane, Queensland.

Introduction

A distinctive narrow achilid with vague transverse banding and with some raised veins on its brown fore wings. It is reasonably common in coastal and neighbouring range areas of eastern Austraila.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder (associated flora: Acacia spp. [FABACEAE] Wattle).

Nymph: fungivore (associated flora: Acacia spp. [FABACEAE] Wattle).

Diagnosis

Female. - Length 3.5 mm; tegmen 5.7 mm. Vertex and nota dark brown speckled with small light spots; frons much lighter speckled with lighter spots; legs and pleura dark brown with lighter spots; abdomen dark brown with the hind margins of tergites light. Tegmina brown, darker over clavus, across the middle, through the supapical cells and at apex, veins dark with light specks along them also extending into the costal and apical cells. Wings light fuscous with darker veins. Pregenital sternite (seventh) with posterior margin deeply angularly emarginate; ovipositor incomplete, sheaths not completely covering ovipositor; anal segment small. (Muir 1924)

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [32]

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