Species Euleimonios truculentus Fletcher & Condello, 1994

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• Euleimonios truculentus Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1994. A revision of the Australian leafhopper genus Euleimonios Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1017-1035 [1032].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: '29-54' possibly 2.ix.1954, T.E. Woodward), Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is based on a single male from Carnarvon Gorge in the South Brigalow Belt of Queensland. The name, truculentus, is the Latin word for "grim" and pertains to the fierce armature of the male genitalia.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head testaceous with faint reddish brown muscle impressions on frons and line of widely spaced small dots across margin of vertex. Pronotum, scutellum and tegmen greenish. Morphology: Face of head with lora enlarged but not bulbous, overlapping anteclypeus nearly to midline. Frontoclypeus evenly convex. Ocelli small, inconspicuous on anterior margin of head, adjacent to frontoclypeal suture. Coronal suture present but very short. Crown slightly convex, without depressions, shagreen. Pronotum shagreen with indistinctly transverse striations on posterior half. Scutellum shagreen. Tegmen with veins M3+4 and CuA1 ending separately in apical vein. Tegmen with five apical cells.

Fletcher & Condello (1994) also described and figured the male genitalia which are diagnostic.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Condello 1994: 1019

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1994. A revision of the Australian leafhopper genus Euleimonios Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1017-1035 [1032–1033]

 

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