Species Austrimonus koebelei Fletcher and Dai, 2018
Austrimonus koebelei Fletcher and Dai, holotype male
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Species Austrimonus koebelei Fletcher and Dai, 2018
Compiler and date details
28 February 2018 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Austrimonus koebelei 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 [313].Zoobank Registration Number:942E9B74-033A-4AB9-8318-09AC8FAB14E8
Type data:
Holotype BPBM ♂ (coll: 24.i.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales.
Introduction
This species is only known from the holotype specimen. Considering its type locality is one of the more collected areas of the country, the lack of additional material implies that the species is either very rare or very restricted in distribution. It is possible that it is no longer extant since Koebele collected in Australia in the very early years of the 20th Century.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head and thorax pale testaceous covered with fine light brown mottling except for ventral half of face. Tegmen whitish with fine light brown mottling interspersed with areas of denser brown mottling giving patchy appearance throughout. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plates narrow, evenly tapering to apical process. Parameres with preapical lobe well developed; apical process with slight preapical tooth. Connective elongate with stem slightly longer than arms. Aedeagus in posterior view with shafts curved dorsally, tapering to gonopore with narrow apical process extending beyond gonopore. In lateral view, shafts narrow, finely acuminate, curved from base then straight to apex of apical process. Basal apodeme very short, directed in line with shafts. 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 [313]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962 | 28-Feb-2018 | ADDED | Dr Murray Fletcher |