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<I>Euleimonios dedarensis </I> (Evans), adult.

Euleimonios dedarensis (Evans), adult.

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Species Euleimonios dedarensis (Evans, 1942)


Compiler and date details

20 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

Originally described in the genus Deltocephalus Burmeister, where Evans tended to place species of Deltocephalinae with uncertain affinities, this species was transferred to Euleimonios by Fletcher & Condello (1994). The holotype is glued face-down onto card obscuring the characteristic swollen lora and it is presumed that Evans would have correctly placed the species into Euleimonios if this feature had been visible. The holotype was collected at Dedari, Western Australia by R.E. Turner but, unlike a number of other species collected by Turner at Dedari, further specimens have been found of this species although these have come from semi-arid parts of NW Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Vic, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Uniformly pale yellow brown. Face of head with lora enlarged but not bulbous, well separated and more or less parallel-sided in midline. Frontoclypeus evenly convex. Crown slightly convex, shagreen, broadly rounded to face, anteriorly obtusely roundly angulate. Pronotum transversely striate except for shagreen anterior margin, scutellum shagreen. Tegmen with M3+4 united apically with CuA1 about midway between M-Cu crossvein and apical vein. Tegmen with four apical cells (Fletcher & Condello 1994).

Fletcher & Condello (1994) also described and figured the male genitalia.

This species can be distinguished from other species of Euleimonios by the male genitalia, particularly the finely attenuated aedeagus and the narrowly triangular, apically pointed subgenital plates and pygofer.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Condello 1994: 1019

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019 25-Oct-2013 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 16-May-2012 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 05-Aug-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)