Species Stenopsoides punctatus Semeraro, 2021

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stenopsoides punctatus Semeraro, L., Fletcher, M.J., Malipatil, M.B., Constant, J. and New, T.R. 2021. Revision of a unique Australian leafhopper genus Stenopsoides Evans (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae: Macropsini). Zootaxa 4999(2): 117–131 [124].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (coll: 29 November 1972, D.H. Colless, at light), 296 km S of Tennant Creek, Stuart Highway, Northern Territory [22°23’30”S 133°22’02”E].

 

Introduction

This is the only species of the genus recorded outside of Western Australia. It occurs in the Pilbara bioregion of NW Western Australia as well as the Burt Plain bioregion of central south Northern Territory. Nothing is known of its biology.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Pilbara (PIL)

Diagnosis

Stenopsoides punctatus may be distinguished from other species in the genus by its smaller body size, having no stripes on the pronotal extension which is yellow with brown coarse pitting (S. turneri and S. newi have brown stripes on the pronotum and S. truncatus has a black mark at the apex), having tegmen with evenly distributed fine black dots (S. turneri has dots restricted to the costal cells and the other two Stenopsoides species have no dots on the tegmen). In common with S. turneri, S. punctatus has ocelli slightly closer to the eyes than to the midline of face (while S. newi and S. truncatus have ocelli about equidistant from eyes as to midline of the face). This species has been collected at light in open forest (Semeraro et al. 2021).

 

ID Keys

Semeraro et al. 2021: 119–120

 

Diagnosis References

Semeraro, L., Fletcher, M.J., Malipatil, M.B., Constant, J. and New, T.R. 2021. Revision of a unique Australian leafhopper genus Stenopsoides Evans (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae: Macropsini). Zootaxa 4999(2): 117–131 [126]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CICADOMORPHA	02-Sep-2021	ADDED