Species Mayawa vestigia Dietrich, 2021

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• Mayawa vestigia Dietrich, C.H. 2021. New species of Mayawa Fletcher and description of a related new Australian leafhopper genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini). Zootaxa 4933(4): 575–585 [Date published 23 February 2021] [583].

  Type data:

   Holotype MAGD ♂ (coll, K. Hill, D. Marshall, M. Moulds, 77m, 3.ii.2006, at light at night), 76km E of Mataranka on Roper Bar Hwy, Northern Territory [14°54.888’S 133° 42.78’E]
  Comment: A whole-body DNA extraction procedure was performed on the holotype specimen of this species before it was recognized as a new species. The procedure removed most of the pigment from the exoskeleton such that the natural coloration and wing venation could not be described. The aedeagus was also broken during the extraction procedure but the parts of the male terminalia are intact and undistorted (Dietrich 2021: 584).

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the type locality which is the same type locality as that of M. kathyae. The only known specimen has been damaged by having a whole body DNA extraction performed before it was recognised as being an undescribed species. The species name refers to the vestigial distal processes of the aedeagus.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: grassland, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species differs from other species of the genus in having the apex of the aedeagal shaft distinctly tapered beyond the preapical processes in posterior view and the preapical processes relatively long (Dietrich 2021).

 

ID Keys

Dietrich 2021: 578

 

Diagnosis References

Dietrich, C.H. 2021. New species of Mayawa Fletcher and description of a related new Australian leafhopper genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini). Zootaxa 4933(4): 575–585 [Date published 23 February 2021] [583]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	04-Mar-2021	ADDED