Species Anasta australiaca (Lallemand, 1935)

Anasta australiaca (Lallemand), adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fulgora australiaca Lallemand, V. 1935. Homoptères des Iles de la Sonde et de l'Australie du Nord. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 42(26): 661-681 [674].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM 3 specimens, sex unknown (coll.: v.1931), Burnside, Northern Territory.

Generic Combinations

• Dictyophara australiaca (Lallemand, 1935). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. 1946. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV, Fulgoroidea. Part 8, Dictyopharidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 246 pp. [149]
• Anasta australiaca (Lallemand, 1935). —
  Song, Z.S. & Liang, A.P. 2013. Review of the genus Anasta Emeljanov (Hemiptera: Dictyopharidae: Hastini) from the Australasian region. Zootaxa 3741(4): 551–568 [556]

Introduction

This species was described from three specimens collected during Prof. Handschin's 1930-1932 collecting excursion to Indonesia and northern Australia at "Australie N.: Burnside". The precise locality of Burnside is not known but plotting Handschin's journey using the dates and localities given in Lallemand (1935) indicates that it is in the northern part of the Northern Territory, SE of Darwin. A search of the NT Place Names Register (http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/) returns three localities, all in this region:Burnside Homestead at 13°28'S 131°25'E, Burnside Mine at 13°30'S 131°21'E and Burnside Road, Marrakai. Any of these could have been the source of Lallemand's syntype series. Song & Liang (2013) recorded the species from Lockerbie in far North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Pine Creek (PCK)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Verte, sauf les yeux, l'extrémité des épines et des crochets des tarses ainsi que trois petites taches sur l'articulation fémoro-tibiale des pattes postérieures, qui sont noirs; élytres et ailes hyalins, à nervures vertes, stigma allongé, bicellulaire, d'un blanc légèrement verdâtre; sur les tibias postérieurs quatre épines: tête en cône allongé, dirigée un peu en haut et en avant, vue d'en haut ses faces latérales sont visibles; vertex deux fois aussi long que large et égale à deux fois et demi la longeuer du pronotum; rostre atteignant les cuisses postérieures. Longueur totale: 11 à 12 mm; tête: 1.5 mm; corps: 7 à 7.5 mm. (Lallemand 1935)

The species was redescribed by Song & Liang (2013) who also described and figured the male genitalia.

ID Keys

Song & Liang 2013: 556

Diagnosis References

Lallemand, V. 1935. Homoptères des Iles de la Sonde et de l'Australie du Nord. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 42(26): 661-681 [674]

Song, Z.S. & Liang, A.P. 2013. Review of the genus Anasta Emeljanov (Hemiptera: Dictyopharidae: Hastini) from the Australasian region. Zootaxa 3741(4): 551–568 [556]

History of changes