Species Desudaba psittacus Walker, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Desudaba psittacus Walker, F. 1858. Supplement. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London, UK : British Museum (Natural History) pp. 1-369 [59].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH sex unknown (from Mr Strange's collection), Australia; BMNH 3, sex unknown (presented by Gibbons, Esq.), Moreton Bay, Queensland.
• Metanira thisbe Stål, C. 1863. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fulgoriden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 24: 230-251 [236].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♂, quantity unknown (may be holotype by monotypy), Moreton Bay, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This is a reasonably common species in SE Queensland and in the Sydney basin of New South Wales. It is presumed to occur also on the NSW North Coast. It has been collected on Mexican mock orange (Choisya ternata) and other Rutaceae.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stål, C. 1866. Analecta Hemipterologica. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 10: 381-394 [389] (synonymy of Metanira thisbe Stål)

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Black, pale beneath; some red streaks on the metathorax and on the base of the abdomen. Abdomen bright green, black at the base. Legs mostly piceous. Fore wings blackish, brown with a few black dots towards the tips. Hind wings vitreous, towards the base bright crimson, with a dark brown border which is widened hindward, paler brown about the interior border; veins black. Length of the body 4–5 lines; of the wings 11–13 lines. (Walker 1858)

 

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1858. Supplement. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London, UK : British Museum (Natural History) pp. 1-369 [59]