Species Pettya tenuis Cao, Dmitriev, Dietrich and Zhang, 2019

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• Pettya tenuis Cao, Y.H., Dmitriev, D.A., Dietrich, C.H. and Zhang, Y.L. 2019. New erythroneurine leafhopper species from the Australian realm (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Zootaxa 4671(2): 251–258. Zootaxa 4671(2): 251–258 [257].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll: 07–27 xii 1995, M.E. Irwin), Brisbane Forest Park, Brisbane, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species was added to the Australian fauna based on two specimens in the INHS collection without reference to material in Australian collections which includes four additional specimens all from the SE Queensland bioregion.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

The new species can be distinguished from other described species by the presence of two stripes on the pronotum. The male genitalia are similar to those of P. punctata (Evans), but the pygofer side is shorter and serrated distally, the aedeagal shaft is curved dorsad and provided with much shorter subbasal processes and a pair of slim processes on the manubrium (Cao et al. 2019).

 

Diagnosis References

Cao, Y.H., Dmitriev, D.A., Dietrich, C.H. and Zhang, Y.L. 2019. New erythroneurine leafhopper species from the Australian realm (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Zootaxa 4671(2): 251–258. Zootaxa 4671(2): 251–258 [258]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	01-Oct-2019	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher