General Information

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Rarotonga COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native, Endemic of Cooks, 1-island; S.Group only (RR only); Land, mountains KEY FEATURES: Small chubby bug, to 5mmBL(m) & 6mmBL(f). FOREWINGS translucent with or without 2 dark, curved bands. SIMILAR SPECIES: Separated by genitalia from similar species from Tonga, Samoa and Societies.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
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Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Atylana rarotongae Eyles & Linnavuori, 1974
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Hemiptera; Auchenorrhyncha; Fulgoroidea; ISSIDAE

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: specimens, Holotype and Paratypes, 1937 & 1938, C.E.Clarke with ID Eyles & Linnavuori as Atylana rarotongae 1974 (see special reference; specimens with dark bands, two Raemaru-Maungaroa c.400m 10/1982, specimens with no bands, one Te Rua Manga c.350m 10/1982, and one Te Kou top c.500m 1/1983, G.Paulay in BPBM, ID M.Asche in BPBM as all the same, as Atylana sp. (6/2003 GMcC) and re-ID G.McCormack as Atylana rarotongae 2007/6; one specimen, BESO475, 1999 (note GMcC 6/2003, re-ID G.McCormack as Atylana rarotongae 2007/6.

References:
Special Reference: Eyles, A.C. & Linnavuori, R. (1974) Cicadellidae and issidae (Homoptera) of Niue Island, and material from the Cook Islands. NZ.J.Zool. 1(1):29-44.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zupB07a, zM02, zD02, zupD07a

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