Species Aneipo diana Fennah, 1949

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• Aneipo diana Fennah, R.G. 1949. New exotic Fulgoroidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 2: 585-606 [603].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: iv.1904, F.P. Dodd, 1902-319), Kuranda, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ (coll.: iv.1904, F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland; BMNH ♂ (coll.: iv.1904, F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland; BMNH ♀ (coll.: iv.1904, F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland; BMNH ♀ (coll.: iv.1904, F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lambkin, K.J. 1978. The Australian achiline genera Aneipo Kirkaldy and Bunduica Jacobi (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Achilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17(1): 25-40 [33] (lectotype designation by default; Fennah (1949) did not designate a holotype).

Introduction

This small whitish species is only represented in collections by the type series collected by F.P. Dodd at Kuranda, N. Queensland in 1904.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Small (total length: male, 5.9 mm, female 6.5 mm) whitish with a series of oblique brown stripes set along almost the entire costal margin of the forewing. A. diana is clearly distinguished from other species of the genus by the form of the bursa copulatix sclerite (a curved, subrectangular basal plate attached to bursa with a central ventrally projected spinose process, very narrow and sharp in posterior view, lobate in lateral view), the shape of the medioventral process of the pygofer (transverse, with slightly sinuate lateral margins converging to a truncate apex), the absence of a basal dorsal knob on the clasper and the non-spinose aedeagal appendages. (Lambkin 1978)

ID Keys

Lambkin 1978: 28

Diagnosis References

Lambkin, K.J. 1978. The Australian achiline genera Aneipo Kirkaldy and Bunduica Jacobi (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Achilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17(1): 25-40 [33]

General References

Lambkin, K.J. 1978. The Australian achiline genera Aneipo Kirkaldy and Bunduica Jacobi (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Achilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17(1): 25-40 [33] (redescription)

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