Species Anasta prognatha Distant, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dictyophara prognatha Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal Notes. xl. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 349-356 [352].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll: Gilbert Turner; might be a holotype by monotypy), Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Anasta prognatha (Distant, 1906). —
  Emeljanov, A.F. 2008. New Genera and New Species of the Family Dictyopharidae (Homoptera), with Notes on the Systematics of the Subfamily Dictyopharinae. Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 88(3): 296-328 [English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2008, 87(2): 360–396] [305]

Introduction

Distant (1906) does not give details of the location within Queensland for his type material which appears to be a monotype. Song & Liang (2013) recorded the species from the Tozer Range on Cape York Peninsula in far North Queensland as well as from Papua New Guinea although they highlighted differences in size and in the proportions of the head between specimens from Queensland and those from PNG.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Body and legs virescent or ochraceous; tegmina faintly virescent, the venation more darkly virescent, stigma obscure virescent; wings pale hyaline; head curved upward, the prolongation narrowing to apex, in front of eyes very little longer than mesonotum, laterally and centrally carinate above, the central carination not extending for more than half the length from base; face distinctly narrowed anteriorly from in front of eyes, tricarinate, the lateral carinations converging anteriorly and posteriorly; clypeus centrally carinate; pro- and mesonota tricarinate, in each case the lateral carinastions convexly converging anteriorly; posterior tibiae with five spines, their apices black; rostrum passing the intermediate coxae. Long., excl. tegm., 11.5 mm; exp. tegm. 25 mm. (Distant 1906)

Song & Liang (2013) redescribed and illustrated the species including the male genitalia.

ID Keys

Song & Liang 2013: 556

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal Notes. xl. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 349-356 [352–353]

Song, Z.S. & Liang, A.P. 2013. Review of the genus Anasta Emeljanov (Hemiptera: Dictyopharidae: Hastini) from the Australasian region. Zootaxa 3741(4): 551–568 [562]

History of changes