Species Austrimonus biapicalis Fletcher and Dai, 2018
Austrimonus biapicalis Fletcher and Dai, holotype male
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Species Austrimonus biapicalis Fletcher and Dai, 2018
Compiler and date details
28 February 2018 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Austrimonus biapicalis 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 [324].Zoobank Registration Number:E978A6B2-7772-481C-BA7E-C7594E127363
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: E.C.B. Langfield, 23.viii.1956), Kimberley Research Station, via Wyndham, NW Western Australia.
Introduction
This species is unusual in its appearance with dark spots on the front of the head and with some obscure orange striping on the pronotum. It is only known from the holotype male from the Kimberley Research Station in northern Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head and thorax evenly pale testaceous throughout with two dark brown spots at apex of head, another beside eye on each side and two against hind margin of vertex. Tegmen pale whitish translucent with small infuscations on costal margin at vein endings. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plate (Fig. 30B) narrow triangular, tapering with apical finger-like process poorly defined. Paramere with preapical lobe slightly rounded, apical process curved laterally with external angulation on medial side. Connective elongate, with stem longer than arms. Aedeagus, in posterior view, with shafts straight, diverging, gonopore preapical with two apical elongate triangular processes, the outer curving around the inner; in lateral view, shafts curve anteriorly to gonopore, shaft continuing beyond gonopore as inwardly curved linear process, and process posterior to gonopore continuing as tapered elongate process curving anteriorly. Basal apodeme thick, blunt, more or less parallel to shaft. Female: unknown.(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 [327]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962 | 28-Feb-2018 | ADDED | Dr Murray Fletcher |