Species Horouta jahmoi Fletcher, 2004
Compiler and date details
27 June 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Horouta jahmoi 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 [51].
Type data:
Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll: J.A. Osmelak, 19.xi.1987, ex tomatoes), Cowra, New South Wales.
Introduction
This species is only known from the two males from Cowra, New South Wales, comprising the type series. Both specimens are macropterous and it is possible that a brachypterous form also exists since such dimorphy is found in other species of the genus. The species name was derived from the initials of John Osmelak who collected the type specimens and to recognise his contribution to understanding tomato big bud phytoplasma in Australia, and the leafhoppers associated with this disease.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Small, brown, macropterous (in the only specimens known). Face dark brown with sparse, pale, transverse striping on dorsal half of frontoclypeus. Vertex with short, brown, marginal stripe on each side, then vaguely longitudinally striped with brown and testaceous, this striping continuing onto pronotum and mesonotum. Tegmen translucent brown with pale veins and pale area in centre of larger cells. Male genitalia: aedeagus with basal processes sinuate in lateral view, strongly outwardly convex in posterior view (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 [51]
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