Species Zinga longa Cao, Dmitriev, Dietrich and Zhang, 2019

Zinga longa Cao et al., specimen from Australia (used with permission)

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  Type data:

   Holotype BMEUC ♂ (coll: 01–05 iii 2000, Malaise trap, T. Sears, 120m.), Gulf, Ivimka Res. Station, Lakekamu Basin [7°44'S, 146°30'E].

Introduction

The species is an Australian extension of an otherwise New Guinean genus.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

Diagnosis

Overall color pale grey, eyes grey; basal triangles of mesonotum dark; specimens from Australia with vertex, face except gena and fore margin of pronotum yellow, tip of anteclypeus brown; specimen from Papua New Guinea without such markings; forewing infuscated on outer margin apically. Male 2S abdominal apodemes not reaching hind margin of sternite IV. Pygofer side with two distal processes formed from outer surface, upper one finger-like, well pigmented, lower one lamellate, broad. Subgenital plate pigmented apically, narrow distally in ventral view, with about 2–4 macrosetae, marginal microsetae not differentiated in size. Style widened subapically. Connective U-shaped, lateral arms slender, central lobe rounded, very short. Aedeagus with very long apical processes, not fused to each other (Cao et al. 2019).

Diagnosis References

Cao, Y.H., Dmitriev, D.A., Dietrich, C.H. and Zhang, Y.L. 2019. New erythroneurine leafhopper species from the Australian realm (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Zootaxa 4671(2): 251–258. Zootaxa 4671(2): 251–258 [255]

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