Species Undarana daybora Hoch & Howarth, 1989
Compiler and date details
4 August 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Undarana daybora Hoch, H. & Howarth, F.G. 1989. Reductive evolutionary trends in two new cavernicolous species of a new Australian cixiid genus (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Systematic Entomology 14: 179-196 [190].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 27.i.1928, H. Hacker), Dayboro, Queensland.
Introduction
This epigean species is only known from two specimens from the type locality which is a little north of Brisbane in SE Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
IBRA
Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: phloem feeder.
Extra Ecological Information
Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.
Diagnosis
Compound eyes well developed; head and thorax brownish medially with conspicuous longitudinal yellowish stripe; tegmina without markings but crossveins darker than longitudinal veins. Legs yellowish, coxae of forelegs darkened in their distal portion. Frons 1.8 x as long as its greatest width. Pronotum 1.3 x as wide as maximum width of head and 7.7 x as wide as anterior margin of vertex. Hind tibiae laterally with 1-2 tiny spines; caudal margin of genital segment smooth, without more or less acute protuberances; genital styles in lateral aspect apically with acute spine-like process. (Hoch & Howarth 1989)
ID Keys
Hoch & Howarth 1989: 181
Diagnosis References
Hoch, H. & Howarth, F.G. 1989. Reductive evolutionary trends in two new cavernicolous species of a new Australian cixiid genus (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Systematic Entomology 14: 179-196 [190]
History of changes
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| 13-Oct-2010 | 13-Oct-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |