Species Mayawa kathyae Dietrich, 2021

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• Mayawa kathyae Dietrich, C.H. 2021. New species of Mayawa Fletcher and description of a related new Australian leafhopper genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini). Zootaxa 4933(4): 575–585 [Date published 23 February 2021] [581].

  Type data:

   Holotype MAGD ♂ (coll: K. Hill, D. Marshall, M. Moulds, 3.ii.2006, 77m, at light at night), 76km E of Mataranka, on Roper Bar Hwy, Northern Territory [14°54.888’S 133° 42.78’E].

 

Introduction

This species was described from a single male collected in the Northern Territory. Two females, which are similar but larger, were considered to be conspecific but, because of the size difference, were not included in the type series. Such sexual dimorphism is not found in other species of Mayawa. The species name honours Kathy Hill, cicada expert who collected many new and interesting Australian leafhoppers for the Illinois Natural History Survey.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: grassland, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species differs from other species in the genus in lacking dark markings on the head and in having the aedeagus with a preapical flange giving rise to a pair of elongate retrorse processes (Dietrich 2021).

 

ID Keys

Dietrich 2021: 578

 

Diagnosis References

Dietrich, C.H. 2021. New species of Mayawa Fletcher and description of a related new Australian leafhopper genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini). Zootaxa 4933(4): 575–585 [Date published 23 February 2021] [581]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	04-Mar-2021	ADDED