Species Austrimonus flagellatus Fletcher and Dai, 2018

Austrimonus flagellatus Fletcher and Dai, adult.

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• Austrimonus flagellatus 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 [317].
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  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: 5–7.i.1965, J.G. Brooks), Mt Spec, Queensland.

Introduction

This is one of only two species of the genus which extend beyond Australia with two records from Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head and scutellum pale yellow testaceous with indistinct pale brown mottling, slightly darker at apex of head. Pronotum with transverse brown ripples sometimes interrupted medially with thin pale longitudinal stripe and laterally with elongate pale marking on each side. Tegmen pale translucent testaceous with brown veins and brown speckling in cells, becoming smoky brown at apex and bearing irregular brown spot at apex of costal cell. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plates narrow triangular tapering imperceptibly into apical process. Parameres with preapical lobe poorly developed; apical lobe extended posteriorly then abruptly curved at 90º to finely acute apex. Connective elongate with stem much longer than arms. Aedeagus shafts, in posterior view divergent from base, obscured by long basal processes fused to posterior margin of shafts to near apex then extending to about twice length of shaft, apically recurved and finely acuminate; in lateral view, shafts evenly curved from base to acute apex, relatively short, apically acute with gonopore subapical on anterior surface, surpassed by posterior processes extending to level with anal segment and recurved strongly anteriorly. Basal apodeme simple, tapering, of moderate length. 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 [317]

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