Species Carvaka mouldsorum Fletcher & Semeraro, 2007

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• Carvaka mouldsorum Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2007. Genus Carvaka Distant in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 46(2): 89-95 [93].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE005633 ♂ (coll.: M.S. & B.J. Moulds, 21.x.1979), Upper Jardine River, Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland [11°17'S 142°35'E].

 

Introduction

C. mouldsorum, which has been found at several locations along the eastern seaboard of Queensland, was named in honour of Max and Barbara Moulds who collected much of the type series. It fits into Viraktamath's (1998) pruthii species group which is characterised by the absence of a sclerite between the base of the aedeagus and the connective and the lack of an extended preatrium bearing a long process.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face yellow. Vertex yellow testaceous with six small brown to black spots: 2 at hind edge of ocelli, 2 against eyes lateral to ocelli and 2 near hind margin, slightly medial to level of ocelli. Vertex sometimes also with obscure thin transverse brown band behind front margin. Pronotum pale testaceous, occasionally with posterior half speckled brown, with transverse line of 2-3 spots on either side behind eye, sometimes with additional spot in front of these. Scutellum pale testaceous with brown spots along margins. Tegmen uniform testaceous, translucent with brown infuscation at apex of each claval vein and at apex of clavus forming line of three brown spots on dorsum when tegmina are folded (Fletcher & Semeraro 2007).
Fletcher & Semeraro (2007) described and figured the male genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Semeraro 2007: 90

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2007. Genus Carvaka Distant in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 46(2): 89-95 [92, 93]

 

General References

Viraktamath, C.A. 1998. A revision of the leafhopper tribe Paraboloponini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae) in the Indian subcontinent. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 67(2): 153–207 [159]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		09-Apr-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		15-Jun-2011	MOVED
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