Species Chunra australis Webb, 1983

Chunra australis Webb, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Chunra australis Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [75].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: viii.1963, mangrove swamp), Innisfail, Queensland.

Introduction

This small brown and white species was described from a single male from Innisfail in the wet tropics of North Queensland. Recently a series of specimens matching Webb's description and illustrations of the male genitalia of C. australis have been collected on the Ryukyu Islands of Japan which raises the possibility that the Australian specimen was an introduction.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Yellow with head and thorax densely mottled with brown; forewings with subcostal area with brown and yellow patches, veins with brown and whitish patches; abdomen marked dorsally and ventrally with brown. Male genitalia with pygophore with an oblique hyaline patch centrally on each side. Subgenital plates slightly expanded at midlength and tapered distally to narrowly rounded apex in lateral aspect. Styles truncate apically. Aedeagus with socle region long, shaft abruptly tapered distally to acute apex in lateral aspect, posterior margin lamellate laterally, anterior margin of shaft keel-like dorsally with a pair of very short lateral processes slightly distad of midlength. Length: ♂ 3.6 mm (Webb 1983).

Diagnosis References

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [75]

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