Species Hishimonus malipatili Fletcher & Dai, 2013

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hishimonus malipatili Fletcher, M.J. & Dai, W. 2013. The genus Hishimonus Ishihara in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) including description of three new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 421–431 [427].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM ♂ (coll: 9–10.viii.1980, M.B. Malipatil, m.v. light), Daly River, Northern Territory [13º45’S, 130º42’E].

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the male holotype and is identifiable only by examination of the male genitalia. The species name honours Dr Mali Malipatil, renowned Australian heteropterist, who collected the type specimen (Fletcher & Dai 2013).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Daly Basin (DAB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head and scutellum pale greenish yellow, pronotum brownish with transverse pale markings. Tegmen pale whitish with scattered brown spots becoming denser at apex. Dorsal spot well defined, margined almost throughout with dark brown with pale area against hind margin of tegmen. Male genitalia. Subgenital plate rounded externally from base to apex with distinct apical finger-like lobe. Paramere with small rounded preapical lobe and apical lobe elongate, directed slightly laterally and minutely denticulate. Connective short with stem longer than arms. Aedeagus, in posterior view, with shafts narrow curving dorsally to preapical gonopore situated on internal posterior face, surmounted outwardly with broad triangular process and medially with short acute point. In lateral view, aedeagal shafts curved from base to gonopore with posterior short acute process and extending on anterior side to form elongate acute process (Fletcher & Dai 2013).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Dai 2013: 422

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Dai, W. 2013. The genus Hishimonus Ishihara in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) including description of three new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 421–431 [427–428]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Dai, W. 2013. The genus Hishimonus Ishihara in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) including description of three new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 421–431 [427–428]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962	05-Nov-2013	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher