Species Austroauridius iwaii Dietrich, 2021

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• Austroauridius iwaii Dietrich, C.H. 2021. New species of Mayawa Fletcher and description of a related new Australian leafhopper genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini). Zootaxa 4933(4): 575–585 [Date published 23 February 2021] [577].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll: C.H. Dietrich, 22.ii.2015, 454m, vacuum rocky area, AU–15–08–03), Crows Nest NP, Queensland [27.2540ºS 152.1071ºE,].

 

Introduction

This smallish, grass-feeding species is only known from the type series collected by vacuum sampler in Crows Nest National Park, SE Queensland. The species is named for I’wai, mythical hero of the Koko Ya’o indigenous people of
Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Length of male 2.6 mm, female 3.0. Male 2S apodemes well-developed but short, paddlelike, extended halfway to posterior margin of sternite III, space between apodemes narrowly rectangular. Subgenital plate half as long as pygofer, with 4-5 macrosetae. Style apophysis inflated medially, constricted preapically in ventral view, apex with posteromedial angle broad, lateral angle narrow and projected posterolaterad to sharp point. Female sternite VII posterior margin with pair of sharp, darkly sclerotized teeth flanking slightly shorter median parabolic lobe, lateral margins rounded (Dietrich 2021).

 

Diagnosis References

Dietrich, C.H. 2021. New species of Mayawa Fletcher and description of a related new Australian leafhopper genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini). Zootaxa 4933(4): 575–585 [Date published 23 February 2021] [577]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	04-Mar-2021	ADDED