Species Anzygina sativae (Evans, 1940)
Anzygina sativae (Evans), adult male.
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Species Anzygina sativae (Evans, 1940)
Compiler and date details
12 March 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Erythroneura sativae Evans, J.W. 1940. Some Queensland leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera) that attack lucerne. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 52: 10-13 [12].
Type data:
Holotype QM Ho 5221 ♂ (coll.: 6.xi.1939, W.A. Smith), Yeerongpilly, Queensland.
Generic Combinations
- Zygina sativae (Evans, 1940). —
Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1232]
Introduction
This little pale species has been collected from plants of the family Fabaceae. Its distribution is mainly temperate coastal areas of Queensland and New South Wales.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: parenchyma feeder (associated flora: Acacia falcata Willd. [FABACEAE] Sickle-shaped Acacia; Medicago sativa Linnaeus [FABACEAE]).
Diagnosis
General coloration yellow, eyes black. Head with the crown produced medially; ocelli obsolete. Length 2 mm (Evans 1940).
Pale cream with suffusion of pale orange on posterior half of pronotum and basal third to two-thirds of pronotum. Occasionally, pale lemon yellow or whitish. Male genitalia. Aedeagus single, straight shaft directed dorsally, tapering from base to apex in both lateral and posterior views. A pair of long, divergent processes apically, extending almost to base of shaft and widening from base to near apex, then narrowed to acute apex. Gonopore preapical. (Fletcher & Larivière 2009).
ID Keys
Fletcher & Larivière 2009: 166
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1940. Some Queensland leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera) that attack lucerne. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 52: 10-13 [12]
Fletcher, M.J. & Larivière, M.-C. 2009. Anzygina, a new genus for some Australasian microleafhopper species formerly placed in the genus Zygina Fieber (Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini). Australian Journal of Entomology 48(2): 164-176 [170]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-Jun-2023 | MEMBRACOIDEA | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 10-May-2022 | CICADOMORPHA | 24-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 02-Jun-2021 | AUCHENORRHYNCHA | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Dec-2019 | CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Murray Fletcher |
| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
| 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED |