Species Warlucephala reversa Fletcher, 2006

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• Warlucephala reversa Fletcher, M.J. 2006. A new genus, Warlucephala, for the reception of Deltocephalus arunda Jacobi, 1909, and two new species (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Records of the Australian Museum 58: 125-128 [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K204207 ♂ (coll: i.1965, J.W. & F. Evans), Wilson's Valley, Mount Kosciuszko, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This small, pale brown species is only known from the Kosciuszko region of New South Wales. The known specimens are semi-macropterous and the head, which is longer than in W. arunda (Jacobi), is distinctly ascending anteriorly.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale brown dorsally, darker ventrally. Frontoclypeus dark brown with speckled lateral pale striations. Apex of head with fine dark brown marginal line, slightly convex dorsally around margin of frontoclypeus. Tegmina translucent testaceous with pale band along costal margin. Morphology: Anteclypeus parallel-sided to apex of lora, then narrowed to apex. Lora widely separated from face margin Vertex arrow-shaped, slightly longer medially than wide between eyes. Vertex shagreen, flat, medially slightly depressed with dark median suture reaching about 3 quarters length from base. Pronotum short, faintly transversely wrinkled. Male genitalia. Pygofer long, laterally extended to form rounded lobe bearing 8-9 long macrosetae. Subgenital plates elongate triangular, apically roundly pointed, bearing evenly spaced macrosetae on outer, slightly concave, margins. Paramere short, with apical process rounded and curled over apically. Preapical shoulder weakly rounded. Connective with arms longer than main body. Aedeagus tubular, strongly curved ventrally with apical linear extension beyond gonopore on ventral side of gonopore. Size. male 3.5–3.7mm, female 4.3mm (Fletcher 2006).

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 2006. A new genus, Warlucephala, for the reception of Deltocephalus arunda Jacobi, 1909, and two new species (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Records of the Australian Museum 58: 125-128 [127]

 

History of changes

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