Species Goniagnathus crocodontis Fletcher, 2008

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• Goniagnathus crocodontis Fletcher, M.J. & Zahniser, J.N. 2008. The first record of Goniagnathini from Australia with description of four new species of Goniagnathus Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Zootaxa 1692: 43-54 [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll: 7-9.vii.1979, G. Monteith & D. Cook, m.v. light), South Alligator Inn, Northern Territory [12°40'S 132°30'E].

 

Introduction

This chocolate brown species with pale cream markings is only known from two brachypterous male specimens from the South Alligator Inn, Northern Territory. The specific name is derived from dontis = tooth combined with an abbreviated “crocodile” and refers to the strongly toothed margin of the aedeagus and not the type locality (Fletcher & Zahniser 2008).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Brachypterous in known specimens. Generally rich chocolate brown with light brown and cream speckling, lateral margin of pronotum cream extending onto tegmen as irregular cream flash, apical half of costal margin of tegmen and three round spots along hind margin also cream. Male pygofer rounded apically, bearing one or two macrosetae on posterodorsal margin. Subgenital plates fused to form broadly quadrate plate, slightly emarginate medially. Parameres with apical section very short, broad, finely rugose, shallowly sinuate apically; basal section broad laterally, narrow medially to articulation with connective. Aedeagus in lateral view curving slightly anterodorsally, apically acute; in posterior view broad-lanceolate with row of 10–12 strong curved teeth laterally, apically shortly bifurcate to form pair of triangular processes beyond gonopore. Length (estimate) 3.5 mm (Fletcher & Zahniser 2008).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Zahniser 2008: 45

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Zahniser, J.N. 2008. The first record of Goniagnathini from Australia with description of four new species of Goniagnathus Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Zootaxa 1692: 43-54 [50]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Zahniser, J.N. 2008. The first record of Goniagnathini from Australia with description of four new species of Goniagnathus Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Zootaxa 1692: 43-54 [50]

 

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