Species Austrimonus melaleucae (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eutettix melaleucae Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [53].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: ix-xii, 1904), Bundaberg, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1993. Lectotype designations and new synonymies for G. W. Kirkaldy's Australian Deltocephalinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) held in the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. General and Applied Entomology 25: 35-59 [45].

 

Generic Combinations

• Hishimonus melaleucae (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [236]
• Austrimonus melaleucae (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fletcher, M.J. and Dai, W. 2018. A new genus Austrimonus for Eutettix melaleucae Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) and nine new species. Zootaxa 4387(2): 310–330 [312]

 

Introduction

This finely mottled, pale-coloured species has been recorded from the wet tropics of North Queensland to Brisbane in SE Queensland. It was omitted from Knight's (1970) revision of the genus Hishimonus since specimens were unavailable for study and was formally excluded from the genus Hishimonus by Fletcher & Dai (2013) on the basis of differences in colour and features of the male genitalia.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Melaleuca [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Whitish (tinged with yellowish sometimes on vertex and scutellum), minutely speckled with dark fuscous. Tegmina with most of the veins pale yellowish-brown on head, face, nota, tegmina 2nd legs, the apical ones darker, part of the apex narrowly suffused. Lora remote from the apical margin of the genae. Vertex more rounded and a little shorter than in E. sellata, nearly twice as wide as the length. Claval veins united near the base by a cross vein, the anal vein slightly curved, meeting the commissure at an acute angle. Male valve short, transverse. Female: apical margin of last sternite sublaterally emarginate, also minutely emarginate medianly. Pygopher about 3 times as long as last sternite, bristly, widened a little near the base, but narrowing at the base. Length 4½ mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

Head and body pale testaceous with brown flecking. Vertex with indistinct, narrow, transverse band subapically which lacks brown flecking, occipital suture dark brown. Tegmen whitish with brown flecking, veins pale brown, claval suture sometimes yellowish. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plate tapering into apical finger-like process. Parameres each with preapical lobe well developed; apical process with preapical tooth. Connective long with arms about as long as stem. Aedeagal shafts in posterior aspect broadly divergent at base and evenly curved dorsally and of even width to gonopore, bearing narrow, bifurcated apical process directed dorsomedially; in lateral view curved basally, then more or less straight. Basal apodeme short, blunt apically. Female: Apical margin of pregenital sternite transverse with medial section extended slightly posteriorly and shallowly concave (Fletcher and Dai 2018).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher and Dai (2018): 311–312

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. and Dai, W. 2018. A new genus Austrimonus for Eutettix melaleucae Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) and nine new species. Zootaxa 4387(2): 310–330 [311–312]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [53]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Dai, W. 2013. The genus Hishimonus Ishihara in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) including description of three new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 421–431 [428]

Knight, W.J. 1970. A revision of the genus Hishimonus Ishihara. Suomen Hyönteistieteellinen Aikakauskirja 36(3): 125-139

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019	Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		13-Jul-2011	MOVED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED