Species Dziwneono alfa Dworakowska, 1993
Compiler and date details
18 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Dziwneono alfa Dworakowska, I. 1993. Fusiplata Ahmed and some other Dikraneurini (Insecta, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Entomologische Abhandlungen. Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 55(2): 97-139 [117].
Type data:
Holotype CAS ♂ (coll: 13.x.1962, E.S. Ross & D.Q. Cavagnaro, 10m), Langi Crossing, [Willare, Dampierland], Western Australia.
Introduction
This species is only known from the male holotype from "Langi Crossing" in Western Australia which is in the Dampierland bioregion of NW Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Dampierland (DL)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: parenchyma feeder.
Diagnosis
Body pale with brownish rosy marks at sides of vertex and on pronotum. Forewing light with brownish patches at apex of clavus, at apex of terminal RP, apical MP' and a brownish streak along commissural margin. Male genitalia apparatus similar to that of D. olszewskii Dworakowska differing from it by almost straight "beak" of the bird-head-like pygofer process, very narrow apical part of paramere and by aedeagus structure. The aedeagus stem in profile is thicker than in D. sagittata Dworakowska and sinuate apically when viewed from side; in posterior view the stem is parallel-sided and tapering in apical sixth. Length ♂ 2.5 mm (Dworakowska 1993).
Diagnosis References
Dworakowska, I. 1993. Fusiplata Ahmed and some other Dikraneurini (Insecta, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Entomologische Abhandlungen. Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 55(2): 97-139 [117]
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |