Species Maroopula trixia Webb, 1983

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• Maroopula trixia Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [73].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, mid Queensland.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♂ (20.i.1966), Australia; QDPI ♂ (27.i.1975, B.K. Cantrell, at light), Awoonga Dam, Boyne River, SW of Gladstone, Queensland.

 

Introduction

The type locality for this species is given as "mid Queensland" despite the presence of a precisely located male paratype. Presumably holotype selection was made on the basis of preferred repository - which was BMNH, rather than an Australian collection. The known distribution of the species is from near Gladstone, SE Queensland to NE New South Wales with "mid Queensland" presumably falling somewhere in that range.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Yellow. Male pygophore with a short dorsal process arising from posterior margin, directed medially or posteriorly. Aedeagus with socle region elongate; basal apodeme with a short, posterior, ventrally directed process on one side; shaft elongate, anterior margin expanded laterally near apex, shaft continued apically on one side as a bifurcate ventrally directed process, one branch very long and other short with a subapical tooth. Length ♂ 6.0–6.3 mm (Webb 1983).

 

Diagnosis References

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [73]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		30-Nov-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)