Species Maon sinuatus Fennah, 1964

Maon sinuatus Fennah, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Maon sinuatus Fennah, R.G. 1964. Three new genera of Eurybrachyidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from West Africa and Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 33(9-10): 157-162 [161].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH BM1936-28 ♂ (coll.: 13-23.xi.1935, R.E. Turner), Yanchep, 32 miles N of Perth, Western Australia.

Introduction

This small hairy species is dark with narrow dark tegmina bearing white markings. The frons has obscure ridging. Nothing is known of its biology. It was based on five male specimens from Yanchep, north of Perth, Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Frons feebly ridged. Fuscous, marbled piceous; metathorax and abdomen scarlet. Tegmina tawny, with fuscous spots. Anterior and apical margins very broadly fuscous, a spot on costal margin one third from base, a spot at node and a subapical transverse band across tegmen, sordid white. Wings fuscous. Anal segment of male long, broadly spatulate, flat. Aedeagus broad, produced dorsally near base in a finger-like process curved dorsad, ventral margin produced in two pairs of curved spines, one pair directed laterad and in repose more or less interlocking with process on genital styles, the other directed caudad with their distal part closely apposed, slightly diverging near apex. Genital styles fused in a curved bowl-shaped plate, with posterior margin sinuate. Male: length, 4.8 mm, tegmen, 6.0 mm. (Fennah 1964)

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1964. Three new genera of Eurybrachyidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from West Africa and Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 33(9-10): 157-162 [161]

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