Species Bajauana austrina (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Bajauana austrina (Kirkaldy), adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Australoma austrina Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [114].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa (2425): 1-31 [5].

Generic Combinations

• Bajauana austrina (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1980. The genus Bajauana and two allied new genera in New Guinea (Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae). Pacific Insects 22(3-4): 237-328 [239]

Introduction

This is a pale yellow species which is also found on Buru Island (Indonesia) making it one of only two members of the Australian Eucarpiini not endemic to the continent.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Head yellow except for dark brown apex of rostrum. Pro- and mesonotum yellow, carinae concolorous or slightly paler. Forewings hyaline yellowish except for mid brown mark near apex of clavus; veins and tubercles yellow; pterostigma yellow except for two mid brown marks. Abdominal sternites yellow, sometimes mid brown. Legs yellow. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.9–5.1 mm; ♀ 4.9–5.5 mm. Head: Vertex 1.4–1.7 times wider than long; with or without indistinct median carina. Frons 1.0–1.2 times longer than wide. Median carina of frons complete, rarely incomplete. Thorax: Forewing 2.5–2,7 times longer than wide; with about 21–24 tubercles on costa; position of crossvein R-M basad or at same level as fork MA-MP. Hind leg: 2nd tarsomere with 8 (rarely 7) apical teeth and three very fine setae. Male genitalia: Ventromedian process of pygofer triangular. Aedeagus: Phallotheca left lateral with two more or less straight spines of different length, right lateral with slightly curved, short spine and long, more or less straight spine. Flagellum with several pointed tips. (Löcker et.al. 2010)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2010: 4)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa (2425): 1-31 [6]

History of changes