Species Hishimonus spatulatus Fletcher & Dai, 2013
Hishimonus spatulatus Fletcher & Dai, holotype male
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Species Hishimonus spatulatus Fletcher & Dai, 2013
Compiler and date details
5 November 2013 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Hishimonus spatulatus 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 [426].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: 13.x.1980, T. Weir), 1 km SE of Mount Cook, Queensland [15º30’S, 145º16’E].
Introduction
This species, which is only known from the male holotype, is recorded from Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head and thorax pale greenish yellow, crown, pronotum and scutellum with faint brown mottling, sparse on crown. Tegmen pale whitish translucent with fine brown markings on crossveins and in some cells, becoming denser medially towards apex which is mainly brown. Dorsal brown patch well defined, margined anteriorly and ventrally with darker brown. Male genitalia. Subgenital plate broadly rounded laterally with distinct apical finger-like process. Paramere with preapical lobe very small and rounded, apical lobe elongate, directed posteriorly, apically rounded. Connective short with arms longer than stem. Aedeagus in posterior view with shafts divergent from base, with lateral flange enlarged around gonopore to form lateral triangular lobe and medial rounded from base to apex with lateral triangular flange curving anteriad. Aedeagus without basal processes (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 [426–427]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962 | 05-Nov-2013 | ADDED | Dr Murray Fletcher |