Species Vulturnus dunkensis (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thaumatoscopus dunkensis Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [154].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM 5208 ♂ (coll.: H. Hacker), Dunk Island, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Vulturnus dunkensis (Evans, 1937). —
  Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [185]

 

Introduction

This species is unknown to the compiler. It is only known from Dunk Island and the compiler is seeking funds to mount an expedition to locate further specimens.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface black, almost flat; overhanging apical margin brown. Crown pale yellowish brown. Pronotum and scutellum concolorous with the head. Tegmen pale yellowish brown, veins dark brown; reticulations between the veins consisting of irregularly shaped dark brown spots. Costal border distally and the apical and anteapical cells in part, silvery white; appendix and supplementary appendix, greyish brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black. Fore and middle legs pale yellowish brown; hind legs black; spine on the hind tibiae pale yellowish brown. Length 4.2 mm (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [154]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		25-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)