Species Parasiphanta lanceolata Fletcher, 1988

Parasiphanta lanceolata Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Parasiphanta lanceolata Fletcher, M.J. 1988. The Australian genera of Flatidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). General and Applied Entomology 20: 9-32 [19].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 9469 ♂ (coll.: 1.iii.1967, M.S. Upton), Mataranka, Northern Territory.

Introduction

An unusual species with the tegmen elongate-lanceolate. The colour varies from light brown to green. Nothing is known of its biology. Two specimens were collected at light and another in malaise trap.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Daly Basin (DAB), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Coloration Light brown to green with dark brown eyes, red stripe across apex of frons reaching laterally to eyes. Fore and mid tibiae and apical margin of tegmen finely marked with red. Tegmen veins darker than cells. Claval granules dark at tips. Morphology. Frons about as long as wide with lateral margins evenly convex from apex to base. Median longitudinal carina percurrent. Vertex front margin obtusely angulate, extending slightly in front of eyes. Vertex and pronotum granulate. Pronotum front margin reaching to about midlength of eyes, hind margin evenly concave. Mesonotum with lateral carinae closer posteriorly than anteriorly. Tegmen, including clvaus, with numerous crossveins. Costal cell with reticulate crossveins. Male genitalia. Pygofer with posterior margin straight, process absent. Paramere broad in basal half then narrowed to rounded apex. Strong recurved dorsal process present. (Fletcher 1988).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2005). Illustrated key to the genera of the family Flatidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/flatid/flat00.htm

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 1988. The Australian genera of Flatidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). General and Applied Entomology 20: 9-32 [19]

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