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<i>Austrimonus biapicalis</i> Fletcher and Dai, holotype male

Austrimonus biapicalis Fletcher and Dai, holotype male

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Species Austrimonus biapicalis Fletcher and Dai, 2018


Compiler and date details

28 February 2018 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This species is unusual in its appearance with dark spots on the front of the head and with some obscure orange striping on the pronotum. It is only known from the holotype male from the Kimberley Research Station in northern Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

WA: Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head and thorax evenly pale testaceous throughout with two dark brown spots at apex of head, another beside eye on each side and two against hind margin of vertex. Tegmen pale whitish translucent with small infuscations on costal margin at vein endings. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plate (Fig. 30B) narrow triangular, tapering with apical finger-like process poorly defined. Paramere with preapical lobe slightly rounded, apical process curved laterally with external angulation on medial side. Connective elongate, with stem longer than arms. Aedeagus, in posterior view, with shafts straight, diverging, gonopore preapical with two apical elongate triangular processes, the outer curving around the inner; in lateral view, shafts curve anteriorly to gonopore, shaft continuing beyond gonopore as inwardly curved linear process, and process posterior to gonopore continuing as tapered elongate process curving anteriorly. Basal apodeme thick, blunt, more or less parallel to shaft. Female: unknown.(Fletcher and Dai 2018).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher and Dai 2018: 311–312

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962 28-Feb-2018 ADDED Dr Murray Fletcher