Species Vivaha saniosa Distant, 1907

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• Vivaha saniosa Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [405].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

Introduction

This species was described from "Queensland" but the type material was collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and it is from this area that it presumably originated.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

Body and legs very pale stramineous; vertex (excluding margins), upper lateral sides of vertex and front of face, and a central longitudinal fascia to mesonotum and scutellum sanguineous; tegmina pale semihyaline, the venation pale stramineous, inner margin to a little beyond end of clavus and a spot above apex of clavus sanguineous, beyond the red inner margin, the apical margin is ochraceous; wings pale hyaline; head produced in front of eyes into a broad flattened laminate process. Long., excl. tegm., 4 mm; exp. tegm 16 mm. (Distant 1907)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [405]

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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