Species Horouta austrina (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lonatura austrina Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [62].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: ii.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales.
  Paralectotype(s) BPBM sex unknown (coll.: ix-xii.1904, Perkins Not found in BPBM), Bundaberg, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [50].

 

Generic Combinations

• Horouta austrina (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  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 [50]

 

Introduction

This semi-brachypterous species has been found in coastal areas of SE Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. Its pale greenish colour differs from the colouring of other known species of Horouta.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Barrow Island, WA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Closely allied to L. catalina but the head is distinctly longer and the tegmina only reach to the base of the genital segment. Head, pronotum and scutellum pale yellowish, the frons with a pale ferruginous radiating pattern. Tegmina pale olive-green, the veins a little yellow, a broad smoky apical band. Abdomen black, the last segment white, pygophor white and black. Legs yellowish brown soiled with fuscous.Length 1 7/8 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

Pale testaceous except for frontoclypeus brown with lateral pale striping, gena sometimes brown around bases of antennae and brown occipital suture extending to level with front of eyes. Tegmen subbrachypterous, about twice as long as broad, reaching to 10th abdominal segment, testaceous hyaline on basal half, thence hyaline to subapical smoky brown band and whitish apical margin. Male genitalia: aedeagus with only one pair of basal processes. (Fletcher 2004).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher 2004: 46

 

Diagnosis References

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 [50]

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [62]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	20-Oct-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		23-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)