Species Anzygina jowettae (Knight, 1976)
Compiler and date details
12 March 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Zygina jowettae Knight, W.J. 1976. The leafhoppers of Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec, and Chatham Islands and their relationship to the fauna of New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 3: 89–98 [97].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll: 7.iii.1975, F. Jowett, 200m, site J 119 063/313), N. Mt Bates, Norfolk Island.
Generic Combinations
Introduction
This species is only known from the type series from Norfolk Island.
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Other Regions
Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Diagnosis
Reddish-brown; anterior and posterior margin of pronotum and basal angles of scutellum dark brown. Forewings yellow; apical cells and margins of clavus next to scutellum dark brown. Male genitalia. Pygophore broadly rounded posteriorly; a short, robust, posteriorly directed process on posterodorsal margin, its apex foot-like. Subgenital plates triangulate, abruptly narrowed basally, exceeding pygophore, apex upturned and broadly rounded in lateral aspect; a uniseriate row of four spine-like setae on lateral margin immediately basad of midlength; a group of small, tooth-like setae on lateral margin immediately basad of lateral setae. Styles with preapical lobe well-developed; apical process expanded, truncate, distal edge thickened. Aedeagus with single shaft cylindrical, directed dorsally at base then turning posteriorly; a pair of slender divergent processes at apex of shaft; gonopore apical (Knight 1976).
ID Keys
Fletcher & Larivière 2009: 166
Diagnosis References
Knight, W.J. 1976. The leafhoppers of Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec, and Chatham Islands and their relationship to the fauna of New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 3: 89–98 [97]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 12-Mar-2012 | ADDED |