Species Drabescus conspicuus Distant, 1908

Drabescus conspicuus Distant.

© Copyright Distant 1908: 306

Museums

Regional Maps

• Drabescus conspicuus Distant, W.L. 1908. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 4 xv 501 pp. [306].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (coll: Green, ii.1901), Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [24].
• Selenocephalus limbaticeps Stål, C. 1858. Hemipterologiska bidrag. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 15: 433-454 [453].

  Type data:

   Lectotype IZW ♀ (coll: Dohrn), Sri Lanka.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [24].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zhang, Y. & Webb, M.D. 1996. A revised classification of the Asian and Pacific selenocephaline leafhoppers (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 65(1): 1-103 [24]

Introduction

This species is distributed from Sri Lanka to Japan and was recorded from Christmas Island by Izzard (1936) (15 specimens, i–iv.1933, F. Harms).

Distribution

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Vertex of head testaceous, its anterior margin black; pronotum ochraceous, its anterior margin white; scutellum ochraceous, its apical area whitish; head beneath with the anterior area black, the posterior area stramineous, extreme anterior margin white, face black, its lateral margins and a spot at inner margin of each eye pale castaneous; body beneath piceous, lateral areas of pro- and mesosterna stramineous, the first with a large black spot; legs pale brownish-ochraceous; tegmina pale brownish-ochraceous, the veins darker marked with small whitish spots, a transverse whitish fascia across middle, the clavus, costal margin and two costal spots behind middle piceous-brown; vertex slightly longer at apex; pronotum transversely striate with paler speckles on posterior disk apical area of scutellum a little foveate; face finely longitudinally ridged. Length incl. tegm. 7 mm. (Distant 1908).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1908. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 4 xv 501 pp. [306]

General References

Izzard, R.J. 1936. The Hemiptera of Christmas Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 17: 577-600 [597]

History of changes