Species Warlucephala arunda (Jacobi, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deltocephalus arunda Jacobi, A. 1909. Homoptera. Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Südwest-Australischen Forschungsreise 1905 2(20): 337-345 [343].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MFNB ♀ (coll.: 8.viii.1905, Hamburg), Moora, Western Australia.

  Subsequent designation 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 [126].

 

Generic Combinations

• Warlucephala arunda (Jacobi, 1909). —
  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 [126]

 

Introduction

This is a semimacropterous species from SW Western Australia known from three males and two females. No information is available on its biology. The males were all collected in a light trap.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

♀. Scheitel etwas kürzer als an der engsten Stelle zwischen den Augen breit, die Fläche in der Mitte stark eingedrückt. Schmutzig rötlichgelb; eine Mittellinie des Scheitels, dessen Seiten an den Augen und zwei Keilflecken an der Schildchenbasis etwas dunkler; dicht unter der Scheitel-Stirnnaht eine scharfe braune Querlinie über Stirn und Zügel, darunter auf der Stirn fünf kleine rotbraune Querbinden. Auf den Scheidenklappen beiderseits der Legescheide ein schwarzer Längsstreifen. Deckflügel halb durchsichtig, das letzte Tergit kaum überragend; das Ende der äussern Clavusader, der Grund und die Spitze der Naht weiss gesäumt; über die Mitte des Coriums verläuft eine schiefe, lineare, schwarzbraune Binde. Letztes Abdominalsternit etwas länger als das vorletzte, flachwinklig eingebuchtet, in der Mitte noch ein kleiner spitzer Einschnitt. Long. corp. 4.5 mm (Jacobi 1909).

Pale yellow brown on vertex, thorax and abdomen. Face dark brown with transverse pale striations on frontoclypeus, separated from vertex by two transverse dark brown line which are slightly convex around dorsal edge of frontoclypeus. Tegmina translucent brown, paler along costal margin. Morphology: Anteclypeus broad at base, tapering unevenly towards apex, noticeably narrowing beyond lora which are widely separated from face margin. Vertex arrow-shaped, flat to concave on disc with clearly distinct median carina reaching three quarters from base to apex. Pronotum short. Tegmen reaching to just short of base of tenth abdominal tergite, appendix absent. Male genitalia: Pygofer extended posteriorly and apically rounded, bearing group of macrosetae on posterior lobe. Subgenital plates narrowly triangular, posteriorly extended to level with pygofer, apically bluntly pointed, each bearing 6 macrosetae evenly spaced along outer margin which is slightly concave. Paramere short, apical process reduced, bluntly rounded apically, preapical shoulder rounded. Connective fused with base of aedeagus, with lateral arms longer than main body. Aedeagus tubular, lightly evenly curved dorsally with gonopore apical but with shaft extended to form short, straight, linear process directed posteriorly from ventral margin of gonopore. Length. male 2.8–2.9mm (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]

Jacobi, A. 1909. Homoptera. Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Südwest-Australischen Forschungsreise 1905 2(20): 337-345 [343]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		25-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
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