Species Austrimonus litorus Fletcher and Dai, 2018

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• Austrimonus litorus 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].
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  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE004677 ♂ (coll: 8.xi.1975, M.I. Nikitin, coll. by sweeping), Lake Parramatta, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species has been collected several times in coastal mangrove swamps and may be associated with this habitat.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face, vertex and scutellum pale yellow testaceous, sometimes with darker brown mottling. Pronotum pale testaceous with brown mottling. Tegmen whitish with scattered brown fine mottling and larger diffuse brown markings at base and apex of clavus and on anterior margin at apex of costal cell, otherwise indistinct pale ocellations on remainder of tegmen. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plates narrow triangular tapering into apical process which is not well defined. Paramere with poorly developed preapical lobe; apical lobe curving gradually laterally, acute apically. Connective long with stem much longer than arms. Aedeagus, in posterior view with shafts diverging from base with posterior basal process fused to shaft on each side to about half shaft length, then extending dorsally as acutely pointed process; in lateral view, shafts curved anteriorly with gonopore on anterior face and free portion of basal process extending about halfway to apex of shaft. Basal apodeme, short directed at right angles to shaft. Female: unknown.
This species differs from all other species in the genus in the arrangement of the basal processes of the aedeagus and the relatively short connective arms compared with the length of the connective stem (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]

 

History of changes

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