Species Horouta jahmoi Fletcher, 2004

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• Horouta jahmoi Fletcher, M.J. 2004. A revision of the genus Horouta Knight with description of two new species and notes on other species of Deltocephalinae (Hemipter: Cicadellidae). General and Applied Entomology 33: 45-54 [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll: J.A. Osmelak, 19.xi.1987, ex tomatoes), Cowra, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the two males from Cowra, New South Wales, comprising the type series. Both specimens are macropterous and it is possible that a brachypterous form also exists since such dimorphy is found in other species of the genus. The species name was derived from the initials of John Osmelak who collected the type specimens and to recognise his contribution to understanding tomato big bud phytoplasma in Australia, and the leafhoppers associated with this disease.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Small, brown, macropterous (in the only specimens known). Face dark brown with sparse, pale, transverse striping on dorsal half of frontoclypeus. Vertex with short, brown, marginal stripe on each side, then vaguely longitudinally striped with brown and testaceous, this striping continuing onto pronotum and mesonotum. Tegmen translucent brown with pale veins and pale area in centre of larger cells. Male genitalia: aedeagus with basal processes sinuate in lateral view, strongly outwardly convex in posterior view (Fletcher 2004).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher 2004: 46

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 2004. A revision of the genus Horouta Knight with description of two new species and notes on other species of Deltocephalinae (Hemipter: Cicadellidae). General and Applied Entomology 33: 45-54 [51]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
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