Species Chaetophyes vicina Lallemand, 1927

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• Chaetophyes vicina Lallemand, V. 1927. Descriptions de Cercopides nouveaux provenent de la collection du British Muséum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1927: 99-118 [99].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2 ♀ (Maa (1963) refers to a holotype mounted as one of a pair of females mounted together on the same point but did not indicate which of the two was the primary type. Lallemand (1927) gave locality data but did not specify a holotype. These specimens are therefore syntypes unless some physical indication has been provided on the specimens themselves by Lallemand (to indicate a holotype) or by Maa (to indicate a lectotype)), Moree, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This is a common species in inland areas of Australia. The males and females are similar in colouring but the male tends to have a longer "nose".

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Coolgardie (COO), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Mulga Lands (ML), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Body greenish yellow; face lacking black markings. Tegmen in male almost uniformly blackish brown, preapical area slightly paler; in female brown, with 1 broad colorless fascia before middle and another less conspicuous one beyond middle; basal 2/5 of anal margin in both sexes broadly greenish yellow, not transparent. Body slender, color pattern in male slightly darker than in female. Head in female distinctly produced forward. Postclypeus smooth and shining, lacking distinct rugae at side and lacking keel. Crown rather smooth, finely striate; side piece of vertex in female distinctly depressed. Tylus sharply marked off from postclypeus, in male distinctly depressed, in female flattened, 1/2 as long as broad, anteriorly with a strong transverse carina. Ocellar area short, 2/5 as long as intercocellar distance. Supra-antennal triangle 2 x as long as ocellar area. P:ronotum less humpbacked than in compacta, coarsely rugose-reticulate, with distinct roundish punctures all over; rugae at posterior 1/2 not predominant over punctures. Surface of tegmen weakly uneven. Relative lengths and breadths of head, pronotum and scutellum male 7 : 21 : 22 and 30 : 31.5 : 14, female 10 : 26 : 29 and 36 : 39 : 17 respectively. Further characters similar to compacta. Body length male 4.5-5.0 mm, female 6.0-7.2 mm (Maa 1963).

 

ID Keys

Maa (1963: 56)

 

Diagnosis References

Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [64]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
27-Apr-2012		27-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
31-May-2010		31-May-2010	ADDED
31-May-2010		31-May-2010	ADDED
		24-Mar-2010	MODIFIED