Species Ellipoma nodulosa Emeljanov, 2008

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• Ellipoma nodulosa Emeljanov, A.F. 2008. New Genera and New Species of the Family Dictyopharidae (Homoptera), with Notes on the Systematics of the Subfamily Dictyopharinae. Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 88(3): 296-328 [English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2008, 87(2): 360–396] [315].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: 6.iii.1957, A.L. Dyce), Colo Vale, New South Wales.

Introduction

This semibrachypterous species is based on a single male from Colo Vale, SE of Sydney, New South Wales. The original description provides little detail of the male genitalia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body brown, with clay-like tint. Metope with brown darkening with vague pale spots, postclypeus slightly paler than metope. Genae darkened around antennae; lorum darkened, except for basal third; anteclypeus darkened, except for carinae and apex. Pronotum and scutellum also with small pale spots. Antennae darkened. Distal half of penultimate segment of rostrum, its base, and entire ultimate segment darkened. All coxae and metathorax irregularly darkened up to yellowish brown, posteroventral margin of mesepipleura also darkened. Abdomen not very intensely dark brown ventrally, with fine, not sharp, pale spots; pale larger spots at bases of sensory hairs (anemaestheters) distinguished against background of fine spots; posterior margins of sternites entirely paler. Fore and middle femora irregularly brownish, darker than dorsal side of body; tibiae dark brown, with pale, off-white middle third. Tarsi dark. Hind femur with not sharp, dark longitudinal stripes; tibia with oblique dark brown bands originating from each lateral tooth; teeth and carinae darkened. Morphology. Anal tube with large lateral lobes concealing upper part of styli. Body length: ♂ 6.1 mm. (Emeljanov 2008)

Diagnosis References

Emeljanov, A.F. 2008. New Genera and New Species of the Family Dictyopharidae (Homoptera), with Notes on the Systematics of the Subfamily Dictyopharinae. Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 88(3): 296-328 [English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2008, 87(2): 360–396] [315–316]

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