Species Goniagnathus centralis (Evans, 1966)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deltocephalus centralis Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [242].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: vi.1939, A. Musgrave. The female holotype and a paratype lacking an abdomen are mounted together. The holotype has been indicated, presumably by the original author, by red markings), Standley Chasm, McDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory.

 

Generic Combinations

• Arawa centralis (Evans, 1966). —
  Fletcher, M.J. 2004. A revision of the genus Horouta Knight with description of two new species and notes on other species of Deltocephalinae (Hemipter: Cicadellidae). General and Applied Entomology 33: 45-54 [53]
• Goniagnathus centralis (Evans, 1966). —
  Fletcher, M.J. & Zahniser, J.N. 2008. The first record of Goniagnathini from Australia with description of four new species of Goniagnathus Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Zootaxa 1692: 43-54 [48]

 

Introduction

This species was originally recorded from Standley Chasm in the Macdonnell Ranges of central Australia and subsequently has been found in a number of widely scattered locations and its distribution may include most of outback Australia. There is variation in the colouring of the species across its range.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Vic, WA: MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murchison (MUR), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

A broad species, pale yellowish in colour, mottled with pinkish orange. Face of head yellowish mottled with pink, or pale yellow mottled, to a varying extent, with black. Crown, either of equal length with the eyes, or slightly longer in the centre, yellowish, mottled with orange-pink. Pronotum concolorous with the crown. Scutellum yellow or pinkish, sometimes with small black, lateral markings. Tegmen with complete venation including three crossveins, m-cu, hyaline grey with sparse irregular brown markings; veins white with orange-pink markings. An apparently constant feature is a series of small dark brown markings against the costal margin of the tegmen. Length ♀ 4.6 mm, width across eyes, 1.7 mm (Evans 1966).

Macropterous. Face and crown of head testaceous with mid brown or pinkish brown speckling. Pronotum with dark brown speckling arranged to form four to five vague longitudinal stripes. Tegmen pale translucent brown with alternating dark and pale spotting along the longitudinal veins. Male pygofer with prominent triangular tooth dorsally on posterior margin above rounded posterior lobe. Group of three macrosetae in centre of posterior lobe, cluster of short, stubby macrosetae on posteroventral corner and fine setae over apical and ventral areas. Subgenital plates broadly rounded posteriorly. Parameres with apical section serrulate, roundly emarginate apically with outer lobe longer and narrower than rounded inner lobe; basal section broadly quadrate. Aedeagus evenly curved, tapered base to apex in lateral view with preapical gonopore surmounted by pair of finely acuminate terminal processes bearing line of strong serrations on anterior margin. Female pregenital sternite with posterior margin roundly emarginate to median, short, apically emarginate prominence. Length: males 3.9 mm, females 3.8–4.5 mm. (Fletcher & Zahniser 2008).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Zahniser 2008: 45

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [242]

Fletcher, M.J. & Zahniser, J.N. 2008. The first record of Goniagnathini from Australia with description of four new species of Goniagnathus Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Zootaxa 1692: 43-54 [48]

 

History of changes

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