Species Undarana tamborina Hoch & Howarth, 1989
Compiler and date details
3 August 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Undarana tamborina 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 [182].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 3.xi.1942, A.J. Turner), Mt Tamborine, Queensland.
Introduction
An epigean species known from the type locality 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
Head and thorax brownish medially with conspicuous longitudinal yellowish stripe; tegmen with irregular inconspicuous brownish markings along fore margin between pterostigma and apex of tegmen as well as along hind margin at apex of clavus and posterior Cu branch; apical cells of tegmen weakly infuscate posteriorly; legs yellowish brown, without any conspicuous markings; compound eyes well developed; frons about twice as long as its greatest width; pronotum 1.3 x as wide as maximum width of head (incl. eyes) and 7.5 x as wide as anterior margin of vertex; tegmen 2.7 x as long as wide; hind tibiae laterally with 2 spines; caudal margin of genital segment with a short stout protuberance at each lateroapical angle; ventral margin of anal tube with paired acute lateroventral processes. Length ♂ 7.3–-8.2 mm, ♀ 7.9–8.1 mm. Length of tegmen ♂ 6.2–7.0 mm, ♀ 6.9–7.1 mm. (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 [182]
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |