Species Hishimonus leichhardti Fletcher & Dai, 2013

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hishimonus leichhardti Fletcher, M.J. & Dai, W. 2013. The genus Hishimonus Ishihara in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) including description of three new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 421–431 [423].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T189772 ♂ (coll: 17–23.v.1985, Donaldson & Hamacek, malaise trap), Sue Island, Torres Strait, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is known from Sue Island and Yam Island in Torres Strait with a single male collected in Cooloola National Park in SE Queensland. The species name honours Ludwig Leichhardt, Prussian explorer and naturalist, who explored parts of northern Australia in the first half of the 19th century (Fletcher & Dai 2013).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head pale greenish white. Pronotum mainly brown with pale speckling, pale along anterior margin. Scutellum whitish with pale yellow laterally margined with brown. Tegmen pale coffee brown on basal half with darker brown spot at apex of costal cell and some brown extending towards apex. Large pale area along costal margin around midlength of tegmen. Pale brown dorsal patch ill-defined, not discernible in some specimens. Male genitalia. Subgenital plates broadly rounded on external margin to base of apical process. Paramere with preapical lobe moderately developed, rounded, apical lobe straight, directed slightly laterally, apically acutely rounded. Connective with lateral arms slightly shorter than stem. Aedeagus without basal processes, in posterior view, shafts divergent, outwardly prominent at midlength, then narrowed to preapical gonopore with apex of shaft produced to form apical pointed process in line with shaft. In lateral view, shafts curved evenly to gonopore with apical process extended short distance from gonopore and recurved anteriorly (Fletcher & Dai 2013).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Dai 2013: 422

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Dai, W. 2013. The genus Hishimonus Ishihara in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) including description of three new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 421–431 [425]

 

General References

Fletcher, M.J. & Dai, W. 2013. The genus Hishimonus Ishihara in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) including description of three new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 421–431 [423–425]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962	05-Nov-2013	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher