Species Mayawa flava Fletcher, 2000

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• Mayawa flava Fletcher, M.J. 2000. A new genus, Mayawa, for the reception of Limotettix capitatus Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae) and descriptions of five new species of Mayawa. Australian Journal of Entomology 39(3): 103-110 [108].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll.: ii.1944, E.F. Riek), Moolooka, (= Moorooka, a suburb of Brisbane), Queensland.

 

Introduction

Unlike the other species of Mayawa, this species lacks any brown colouring and is plain lemon yellow in colour, even on the face of the head. It is distributed mainly in southern Queensland although there are known records, which appear to be this species, from both the Pilbara and the far NE corner of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Mulga Lands (ML), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: grassland, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is easily differentiated from other species of Mayawa by the complete lack of dark colouration on the head and thorax but male genitalia should be examined for confirmation of identifications.

Fletcher (2000) provided a detailed description and figures of the species.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher 2000: 104

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 2000. A new genus, Mayawa, for the reception of Limotettix capitatus Kirkaldy (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae) and descriptions of five new species of Mayawa. Australian Journal of Entomology 39(3): 103-110 [106, 109]

 

History of changes

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