Species Diemoides linnavuorii Fletcher, 2017

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• Diemoides linnavuorii 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] [318].
  Zoobank Registration Number:33B436F6-37C2-4CA5-A210- FE8F4DF3220E

  Type data:

   Holotype QMBA T234775, ♂ (coll: Storey & Halfpapp, 7.i–12.ii.1985, malaise trap), 22 km WSW of Mareeba, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species, known only from the Wet Tropics of North Queensland, was named in honour of Dr Rauno Linnavuori and his lifetime of work on the taxonomy of leafhoppers.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is similar in genitalia features to D. chevron, D. sagittatus and D. storeyi all of which also have the subgenital plates bearing long apical processes and with the marginal macrosetae limited to a small group near the base. The structure of the parameres and aedeagus is also similar but D. linnavuorii lacks the distinctive red markings of D. chevron and D. sagittatus (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] [318–319]

 

History of changes

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