Species Euleimonios dedarensis (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deltocephalus dedarensis Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [147].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (notes on R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Euleimonios dedarensis (Evans, 1942). —
  Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1994. A revision of the Australian leafhopper genus Euleimonios Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1017-1035 [1021]

 

Introduction

Originally described in the genus Deltocephalus Burmeister, where Evans tended to place species of Deltocephalinae with uncertain affinities, this species was transferred to Euleimonios by Fletcher & Condello (1994). The holotype is glued face-down onto card obscuring the characteristic swollen lora and it is presumed that Evans would have correctly placed the species into Euleimonios if this feature had been visible. The holotype was collected at Dedari, Western Australia by R.E. Turner but, unlike a number of other species collected by Turner at Dedari, further specimens have been found of this species although these have come from semi-arid parts of NW Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Uniformly pale yellow brown. Face of head with lora enlarged but not bulbous, well separated and more or less parallel-sided in midline. Frontoclypeus evenly convex. Crown slightly convex, shagreen, broadly rounded to face, anteriorly obtusely roundly angulate. Pronotum transversely striate except for shagreen anterior margin, scutellum shagreen. Tegmen with M3+4 united apically with CuA1 about midway between M-Cu crossvein and apical vein. Tegmen with four apical cells (Fletcher & Condello 1994).

Fletcher & Condello (1994) also described and figured the male genitalia.

This species can be distinguished from other species of Euleimonios by the male genitalia, particularly the finely attenuated aedeagus and the narrowly triangular, apically pointed subgenital plates and pygofer.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Condello 1994: 1019

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1994. A revision of the Australian leafhopper genus Euleimonios Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1017-1035 [1021–1023]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Condello, A.A. 1994. A revision of the Australian leafhopper genus Euleimonios Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1017-1035 [1021]

 

History of changes

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