Species Jamella sojora Medler, 1990

Jamella sojora Medler, adult

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• Jamella sojora Medler, J.T. 1990. Review of Jamella Kirkaldy and Malleja, gen. nov. in Australia and New Guinea, with descriptions of new species (Homoptera: Flatidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 995-1004 [1001].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 14,028 ♂ (coll.: 18.iii.1961, 5 m, J.L. & M. Gressitt), Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.

Introduction

This species is similar in general appearance to J. australiae but can be easily separated from it by the presence of three carinae rather than one on the face. It is also only known from localities in the north of the Northern Territory while J. australiae has been recorded from North Queensland and the northeast corner of New South Wales.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Rich dark brown color and tegmina narrowed apically to greater degree than J. australiae. Other distinctive characters are strongly tricarinate frons, longer than usual R + S stem of tegmen, and male anal segment with V-notch. Tegmina marked with irregular patch of dark fuscous between bulla and costal margin and several smaller round spots in discal cells. Vertex with pair of dark brown spots on each side of medial area, mesonotum with pair of black round spots posteriorly on disc within lateral carinae and larger spots between carinae and posterior margin. Female segment X oval, diameter 6.5 mm. Male genitalia. Dorso-apical margin of pygofer sharply pointed; apical margin of anal segment incised V-shaped; slender dorsal and ventral processes arising from apex of aedeagus, directed basally; dorso-apical margin of style rather robust, not slender as usual in the genus (Medler 1990).

ID Keys

Medler 1990: 998

Diagnosis References

Medler, J.T. 1990. Review of Jamella Kirkaldy and Malleja, gen. nov. in Australia and New Guinea, with descriptions of new species (Homoptera: Flatidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 995-1004 [1001]

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