Species Goniagnathus crocodontis Fletcher, 2008
Compiler and date details
4 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Goniagnathus crocodontis 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 [50].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♂ (coll: 7-9.vii.1979, G. Monteith & D. Cook, m.v. light), South Alligator Inn, Northern Territory [12°40'S 132°30'E].
Introduction
This chocolate brown species with pale cream markings is only known from two brachypterous male specimens from the South Alligator Inn, Northern Territory. The specific name is derived from dontis = tooth combined with an abbreviated “crocodile” and refers to the strongly toothed margin of the aedeagus and not the type locality (Fletcher & Zahniser 2008).
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Brachypterous in known specimens. Generally rich chocolate brown with light brown and cream speckling, lateral margin of pronotum cream extending onto tegmen as irregular cream flash, apical half of costal margin of tegmen and three round spots along hind margin also cream. Male pygofer rounded apically, bearing one or two macrosetae on posterodorsal margin. Subgenital plates fused to form broadly quadrate plate, slightly emarginate medially. Parameres with apical section very short, broad, finely rugose, shallowly sinuate apically; basal section broad laterally, narrow medially to articulation with connective. Aedeagus in lateral view curving slightly anterodorsally, apically acute; in posterior view broad-lanceolate with row of 10–12 strong curved teeth laterally, apically shortly bifurcate to form pair of triangular processes beyond gonopore. Length (estimate) 3.5 mm (Fletcher & Zahniser 2008).
ID Keys
Fletcher & Zahniser 2008: 45
Diagnosis References
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 [50]
General References
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 [50]
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