Species Mayawa fusca Fletcher, 2000

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• Mayawa fusca 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.: 28.iii.1958, W.E. Wright, at light), Grafton, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This is a coastal species found between the wet tropics of North Queensland and the NE of New South Wales. The species name reflects the greater amount of darker coloration, particularly on the face, compared with other species of the genus.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: grassland, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is most easily distinguished from other species of Mayawa by the arrangement of the apical and preapical processes of the aedeagus, along with the concave apical margin of the parameres (Fletcher 2000).

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, 108]

 

History of changes

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