Species Austrimonus apicalis Fletcher and Dai, 2018

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• Austrimonus apicalis Fletcher, M.J. and Dai, W. 2018. A new genus Austrimonus for Eutettix melaleucae Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) and nine new species. Zootaxa 4387(2): 310–330 [312].
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  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE007980 ♂ (coll: M.J. Fletcher and G.R. Brown, 10.iii.1981, light trap, hind dunes), Lennox Head, N. of Ballina, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This is a widespread Austrailan species, distributed from western Victoria, along the eastern seaboard of mainland Australia and across the Top End to Melville Island and northeastern Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head, body and tegmina pale testaceous to pale orange with minute brown speckling except for basal parts of face, which lack brown mottling, and apex of head becoming darker brown but delineating five marginal oval pale spots, the laterals surrounding the ocelli. Female with vague pale transverse band near base of tegmen. Vertex of almost equal length throughout. Fore tibia with 4+4 dorsal setae. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plate narrow triangular, tapering into apical finger-like process. Parameres with preapical lobe well developed; apical lobe apically acute with slight hint of tooth preapically. Connective elongate with stem slightly longer than arms. Aedeagal shafts, in posterior view, divergent at base then directed dorsally and slightly laterally, almost straight to gonopore with apical process directed inwards and bifurcated; in lateral view, curved dorsally to near apical section, then curved posteriorly. Basal apodeme short, bluntly pointed. Female: Posterior margin of pregenital sternite transverse with medial section extended posteriorly and medially emarginate) (Fletcher and Dai 2018).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher and Dai (2018): 311–312

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. and Dai, W. 2018. A new genus Austrimonus for Eutettix melaleucae Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) and nine new species. Zootaxa 4387(2): 310–330 [313]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962	28-Feb-2018	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher