Species Diemoides smithersi Fletcher, 2017

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diemoides smithersi Fletcher, M.J. 2017. Revision of the genus Diemoides Evans with description of eight new species (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Entomologica Americana 122(3): 311–325 [Dated 2016 but published April 2017] [317].
  Zoobank Registration Number:C85F2EDE-47CC-496E-88A7- FFFB397EACA0

  Type data:

   Holotype QMBA T234774, ♂ (coll: Storey & Titmarsh, 21.xii.1984–7.i.1985, malaise trap), 13 km up Davies Creek Rd, via Mareeba, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is quite colourful although more subdued when compared with certain other species of the genus. It has been recorded in the Wet Tropics of North Queensland and near Coen on Cape York Peninsula. The name honours the late Dr Courtenay Neville Smithers,
formerly of the Australian Museum, Sydney, who was a mentor to many young entomologists, one of the pioneers of citizen science in Australia with his butterfly banding program and one of the key people in the establishment of the Australian Entomological Society in 1965.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species shares an unusual feature with D. smithtoniensis, D. brunneus and D. sueshephardae with the apical narrowed section of the subgenital plate diverted laterally and bearing macrosetae on its inner margin. It differs from these and other species in the structures of the male genitalia (Fletcher 2017).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher 2017: 313–314

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 2017. Revision of the genus Diemoides Evans with description of eight new species (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Entomologica Americana 122(3): 311–325 [Dated 2016 but published April 2017] [317]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	10-Apr-2017	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher