Species Diemoides brunneus Fletcher, 2017

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• Diemoides brunneus Fletcher, M.J. 2017. Revision of the genus Diemoides Evans with description of eight new species (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Entomologica Americana 122(3): 311–325 [Dated 2016 but published April 2017] [322].
  Zoobank Registration Number:433D4C19-A83F-4136-80CB-0F64890D8E95

  Type data:

   Holotype QMBA T234777 ♂ (coll: Storey & Titmarsh, 10.xi–26.xii.1983, malaise trap), Windsor Tableland, via Mt Carbine, Queensland.

 

Introduction

A reasonably nondescript species from the NE tropical coast of Queensland. Little is known of its biology with most known specimens collected at light traps or in malaise traps.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is remarkable in the inner structure of the male pygofer which bears round denticulate lobes which sit either side of the aedeagal apical process when the aedeagus is not in use. Such lobes are not found in other species of the genus. The species also lacks the brightly colored markings found in many other species of the genus and is generally a drab brown color, similar to that of D. linnavuorii from which it differs in the structure of the aedeagus, parameres, subgenital plates and pygofer (Fletcher 2017).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher 2017: 313–314

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 2017. Revision of the genus Diemoides Evans with description of eight new species (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Entomologica Americana 122(3): 311–325 [Dated 2016 but published April 2017] [322]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	10-Apr-2017	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher