Species Austrimonus clavatus Fletcher and Dai, 2018

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• Austrimonus clavatus 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 [323].
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  Type data:

   Holotype WAM ♂ (coll: 8.vi.1966, G.W. Kendrick, A. Douglas leg.), main dam site, Duncan Highway, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the far northern regions of Western Austraiia. It is also one of the few for which a female is known.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face pale orange fading to cream laterally, with fine brown transverse line dorsally at margin with vertex. Vertex pale cream with faint orange band across middle with slight depression submarginally. Pronotum and scutellum pale orange anteriorly, pale testaceous posteriorly. Tegmen whitish translucent with transverse translucent band at about midlength, veins and markings on crossveins and in cells brown. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plates narrow triangular tapering into apical process. Paramere with preapical lobe well developed, apical lobe curved laterally with small preapical tooth and finely acute apex. Connective long with stem distinctly longer than arms. Aedeagus in posterior view with shafts obscured by large basal processes diverging gradually from base, evenly broad throughout then tapering to acute apex; in lateral view, basal processes extend dorsally, slightly curved posteriorly at apex; shafts anterior to processes, fused to processes for short distance, then divergent from them, parallel to basal apodeme, gonopore at about three quarter length of processes, shaft continuing beyond gonopore anteriorly and expanded to form large truncate process terminating level with apices of basal processes. Basal apodeme complex with accessory process extending anteriorly. Female: Posterior margin of pregenital sternite transverse with deep medial emargination. (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 [323]

 

History of changes

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