Species Chaetophyes pulcherrima Evans, 1970

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• Chaetophyes pulcherrima Evans, J.W. 1970. A new species of Machaerotidae from Australia (Homoptera: Cercopoidea). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 81(8): 83-84 [83].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T.6732 ♂ (Coll. T. Weir, 20.iv.1968), North Stradbroke Island, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This is the most colourful species of the genus in Australia with distinctive striping on the pronotum and green basally on the forewings which are otherwise hyaline with the veins marked out in dark brown. It is only known from SE Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Length male 4.8 mm, female 6 mm; width across eyes, male 1.6 mm, female 1.9.mm. General coloration green, female with orange and brown markings. Face of head, ante and post-clypeus, yellowish; post-clypeus with two transverse posterior brown muscle impressions, sometimes also with additional, more anteriorly placed, oblique ones; medially almost flat, laterally convex. Crown of even width with eyes, horizontal, slightly rugose, brown; frons sometimes darker than remainder. Pronotum slightly convex, punctate, transversely striated, shining; anteriorly a transverse orange stripe margined on both sides with white; remainder deep orange with three longitudinal whitish stripes; sometimes greenish laterally. Scutellum brown or green, or in part brown, in part green. Tegmen, crumpled, shining; female, clavus punctate, membrane adjoining clavus and costal margin, green; male, clavus in part brown, remainder of tegmen vitreous; veins with raised spots, in part brown; anal veins joined by one or two cross veins. Male genitalia illustrated (Evans 1970)

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1970. A new species of Machaerotidae from Australia (Homoptera: Cercopoidea). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 81(8): 83-84 [83]

 

History of changes

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