Genus Budginmaya Fletcher & Moir, 2009

Budginmaya eulae Fletcher & Moir, type species of Budginmaya.

© Copyright Melinda Moir, University of Melbourne.

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• Budginmaya Fletcher, M.J. & Moir, M.L. 2009. Budginmaya eulae gen. et sp. nov., a myrmecophilous planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Flatidae) from Western Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 48(1): 36-39 [36].

  Type species:

   Budginmaya eulae Fletcher & Moir, 2009 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus was created for a single recently discovered species found living in the nests of ants in SW Western Australia. This habit is unique in the family Flatidae and, for Australia, it is unique for the Fulgoromorpha. The generic name is derived from ‘budgin’ (= ant) and ‘maya’ (= shelter) from the Nyungar language of SW coastal Western Australia (Thieberger & McGregor 1994, Macquarie Aboriginal Words. The Macquarie Library, Macquarie University). This reflects the association of these planthoppers living in the nests of ants.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Esperance Plains (ESP)

Diagnosis

Short flattened planthoppers. Head short, face convex, flatter medially, with obscure lateral carinae and scattered short erect setae over surface and along margins. Eyes small. Antennae with short scape and elongate cylindrical pedicel. Vertex short, separated from face with obscurely carinate margin. Pronotum short, anterior margin medially emarginate, posterior margin broadly concave. Scutellum relatively large. Tegmina partially brachypterous, leaving apical abdominal segment exposed. Apical and sutural angles broadly rounded, continuous with convex apical margin. Costal margin lobed at base. Costal area broad basally, then narrower than costal cell. Subapical lines and angled cross vein between M and Cu absent. Hind tibia with one spine on shaft. Head, pronotum, margins of tegmina and legs lined with short, erect, sensory setae. (Fletcher & Moir 2009)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005). Illustrated key to the genera of the family Flatidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/flatid/flat00.htm

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Moir, M.L. 2009. Budginmaya eulae gen. et sp. nov., a myrmecophilous planthopper (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Flatidae) from Western Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 48(1): 36-39 [36–37]

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