Species Austrimonus curvatus Fletcher and Dai, 2018
Austrimonus curvatus Fletcher and Dai, adult
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Species Austrimonus curvatus Fletcher and Dai, 2018
Compiler and date details
28 February 2018 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Austrimonus curvatus 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 [314].Zoobank Registration Number:9D042A95-5480-4326-82AB-DBF7AF08ECD7
Type data:
Holotype QM T207233). ♂ (coll: J.W. Turner, 22.iii.1985, at light), Yam Island, Queensland.
Introduction
This species is known from a handful of specimens from Yam Island in Torres Strait to the Gulf country and western Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Gulf Plains (GUP)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Face of head sordid yellow or brownish with lateral pale markings. Vertex and pronotum pale cream testaceous with faint brown markings, scutellum with lateral angles pale orange or pale brown. Tegmen whitish translucent with brown markings throughout, becoming darker towards apex where veins are highlighted in brown; pale patch on costal margin at about midlength. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plates narrow triangular, apically tapered without distinct apical lobe. Parameres with preapical lobe small, rounded; apical process curved laterally with slight angle on internal margin. Connective long with stem much longer than arms. Aedeagus, in posterior view, with shafts divergent, bearing elongate, apically acute process apparently at midlength; in lateral view, aedeagal shafts strongly curved anteriorly with basal process fused to posterior margin of shaft to about midlength and then diverging to form elongate acute process curved anteriorly. Basal apodeme long, tapered to blunt apex, extended at right angles to base of shaft. Female: unknown (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 [314–317]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962 | 28-Feb-2018 | ADDED | Dr Murray Fletcher |