Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave

Figs 1I –J, 2, 5.

Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave, 1927: 47

Etymology. fuscomaculata (adj., Latin): from fuscus, brown, and maculatus, spotted. Literally “spotted with brown”, the name refers to the colouration of the tegmina.

Type material examined: Holotype 3: [Holotype Desudaboides flavomaculata Musgrave Ƥ] [Chilla, Jan 24] [Male, stated in error as Ƥ in paper, Det. by A. Musgrave.] [k55909] [Holotype 3 Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave, 1927, Jérôme Constant det. 2009] (AMS).

Allotype Ƥ: [Allotype Desudaboides flavomaculata Musgrave 3] [Chilla, Jan 24] [Female, stated in error as male in paper, Det. by A. Musgrave.] [k55910] [Paratype Ƥ Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave, 1927, Jérôme Constant det. 2009] (AMS).

Coordinates of Chinchilla (= Chilla): 26°45'S 150°38'E.

Notes: The species has been described under the name fuscomaculata (Musgrave, 1927) but both type specimens bear labels indicating flavomaculata. The other labels on the specimens do not allow any doubt that they are the types. Additional labels with the right name have been attached to both specimens to avoid future confusion.

Nagai & Porion (1996) provide a habitus illustration of the species but erroneously stated that the type specimens of D. fuscomaculata are deposited in the collections of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney.

Other material examined: 2 3: 40 Mile Scrub near Mt. Garnet, N. Qld, 9.i.1973, M.S. & B.J. Moulds (AMS) coordinates of 40 Mile Scrub: 18°5’S 144°50’E; 1 3: 40 Mile Scrub, 65 km SW of Mt. Garnet, N. Qld, 19.xii.1974, M.S. Moulds (AMS); 2 3: idem, 15.iii.1982 (ASCU); 2 3, 1 Ƥ: 40 Mile Scrub, 40 mi SW of Mt. Garnet, N. Qld, 19.xii.1974, M.S. Moulds (ASCU); 1 Ƥ: 40 Miles Scrub, 64 km SW of Ravenshoe, N. Qld, 7.i.1976, mv lamp, D.K. McAlpine (AMS); 2 3, 2 Ƥ: Chillagoe, GPS 300, 11-12.iii.1997, light trap, Th. Bourgoin (1 3, 1 Ƥ: MNHN; 1 3, 1 Ƥ: RBINS) coordinates of Chillagoe: 17°9'S 144°32'E

Additional data: Mareeba (Nagai et Porion, 1996). Coordinates of Mareeba: 17°0'S 145°26'E.

- specimens in ANIC (pers. comm. Tom Weir, 2008): 1 ex.: Emu Ck, 27 km SW of Dimbulah, QLD, 25- 26.xi.1981, J. Balderson, coordinates of Emu Creek: 17°20’S 144°57’E; 1 ex.: Lolworth Station, N.

Queensland, 29.vi.1907, Mrs Black, coordinates of Lolworth Station: 20°11’S 145°1’E; 2 ex.: 40 Mile Scrub, 40 miles SW of Mt Garnet, NQ, 9.i.1973, G.J. Brooks; 4ex.: idem, 26.ii.1974; 1 ex.: 40 Mile Scrub, 55 miles SW by S of Mt Garnet, 8.xii.1985, J. Balderson; 5 ex.: 40 Mile Scrub, 4.x.1989, L. Ring; 3 ex: idem, 12.iii.1994, L.R. Ring; 6 ex.: Mt. Garnet, 14.iv.1944, coordinates of Mt. Garnet: 17°41’S 145°7’E.

Diagnosis. The species is immediately recognized by the following combination of characters: (1) frons pale yellow to red with 4 black spots on disc (Fig. 1 J), (2) hind wings with base red (Fig. 1 I), (3) abdominal tergites 3 to 8 bright orange (Fig. 1 I), (4) tegmina with numerous black-brown spots, with base rosy red and with apex hyaline (Fig. 1 I).

Genitalia 3: see Figs. 2A–C.

Biology. Nothing is known except that five of the 15 examined specimens have been caught by light trap.

Distribution (Fig. 5). Eastern Queensland. The distribution seems to roughly follow the Great Dividing Range.