Species Uxantis notata Distant, 1910

Uxantis notata Distant, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Uxantis notata Distant, W.L. 1910. Rhynchotal Notes. L. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 297-322 [317].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (coll: F.P. Dodd, 1907 - 54), Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1990. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XIV. Walker and Distant types in the British Museum. Oriental Insects 24: 127–195 [175].

Introduction

This is the only representative of this genus in Australia. As with other Flatoidinae, it is cryptically coloured to blend with tree bark. The type specimens were collected by F.P. Dodd and most of his collecting was undertaken in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and this is the probable source of the material.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Vertex, pronotum and mesonotum very pale virescent, abdomen above more distinctly greenish ; vertex with three black spots, one at each basal angle, the other at apex; pronotum sparingly coarsely blackly punctate; mesonotum with sublateral black fasciae, which are furcate anteriorly; body beneath and legs very pale virescent ; basal margin and basal halves of lateral margins narrowly pale testaceous (this marginal coloration is absent in some specimens); tegmina pale greyish, opaque, the numerous veins and veinlets testaceous or fuscous brown, a series of small marginal piceous spots on posterior margin from apex of clavus, and these spots in smaller size, less distinct appearance, and less closely situate are continued round apical and along costal margins; wings creamy white, the veins more or less virescent; vertex broader than long, moderately concave, anteriorly transversely angulate, the margins ridged; face slightly longer than broad, the lateral margins ridged ; tegmina about two and a half times as long as broad, the costal margin a little waved, widest at base, moderately attenuated at apex, which is rounded, distinctly arched at base of costal margin. Long., excl. tegm., ♂ ♀ 7–8 mm.; exp. tegm. 24–27 mm (Distant 1910).

The male genitaila of the lectotype were illustrated by Medler (1990: Fig. 68).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1910. Rhynchotal Notes. L. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 297-322 [317–318]

Medler, J.T. 1990. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XIV. Walker and Distant types in the British Museum. Oriental Insects 24: 127–195 [195]

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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