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Rhotana Walker. A 1857

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Description

Key to the species of Rhotana from Australia

1. Forewings with a group of 7 to 8 prominent, round, black marks near hind margin (e.g. Fig. 228f)...................... 2

- Forewings without such marks........................................................................... 3

2. Margins of facial carinae contiguous at bases; forewings with bases of most median sectors conspicuously lined with narrow bands of infuscation; no orange forewing veins (Fig. 228)................. R. gressittorum sp. nov. (R. pavo group), p. 90

- Margins of facial carinae well separated throughout (Fig. 234c), forewings without conspicuous, narrow infuscated bands along bases of median sectors, some forewing veins orange............. R. septemmaculata Distant (R. pavo group), p. 93

3. All forewing veins bright red........................................ R. haematoneura Kirkaldy (ungrouped), p. 99

- Few if any forewing veins bright red...................................................................... 4

4. Forewings red around last subcostal sector, apices of Ms1a, Ms2, Ms3, and Ms4 each with a small black spot (Fig. 238f)......................................................... R. quadrimaculata Distant (R. quadrimaculata group), p. 96

- Forewings without red mark around last subcostal sector, tips of Ms3 and Ms4 may each have a small dark spot (Fig. 239f), but tips of Ms1a and Ms2 always without such marks............................................................ 5

5. Forewings with short dark stripes near hind-margin along apical cross-veins between Cu, Cu1, Ms1a, and Ms1b, tips of apical lobes of male aedeagus blunt in dorsal view (Fig. 246)......................... R. mendax sp. nov. (ungrouped), p. 101

- Forewings without such short stripes, apical part of male aedeagus with two pointed processes (Fig. 239).......................................................................... R. ramentosa Distant (R. quadrimaculata group), p. 96

Notes

Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on page 110

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker. A
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Derbidae
Genus
Rhotana
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Rhotana A, 1857 sec. Zelazny & Webb, 2011