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<i>Austrimonus luteus</i> Fletcher and Dai, adult

Austrimonus luteus Fletcher and Dai, adult

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Species Austrimonus luteus Fletcher and Dai, 2018


Compiler and date details

28 February 2018 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This species is distributed across northern Australia from the Northern Territory to Cape York Peninsula in Queensland and is also known from the Lamington district of Papua New Guinea. Only two of the known species extends beyond Australia, both to PNG.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Pine Creek (PCK)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face pale testaceous, vertex with some pale orange markings on either side of midline and some fine brown speckling along apical margin. Pronotum and scutellum pale orange with faint brown markings. Tegmen pale whitish translucent with small brown speckles scattered sparsely across surface, veins pale brown, darker in apical area. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plates narrow triangular, tapering into apical process. Parameres with preapical lobe well developed, angular, apical process directed laterally with distinct preapical angular prominence. Connective long with stem distinctly longer than arms. Aedeagus, in posterior view with long basal processes diverging from base and tapering from base to acute apex, obscuring shafts; in lateral view, basal processes curve dorsally, more so in apical section, processes not fused at all to shafts which curve evenly dorsally, of even width from base to apex. Gonopore apical. Basal apodeme short, straight, at right angles to base of shafts. Female: unknown (Fletcher and Dai 2018)

 

ID Keys

Fletcher and Dai 2018: 311–312

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962 28-Feb-2018 ADDED Dr Murray Fletcher