Species Mayawa neoflava Fletcher, 2000

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• Mayawa neoflava 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 [109].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 6-12.v.1975, K.J. Houston, D-vac suction machine), Coen area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This pale yellow species with hyaline wings is known from two males from the Coen region (type locality) and Mossman Gorge, North Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: grassland, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is very close to M. flava Fletcher from which it can be distinguished by the presence of black muscle impressions on the frons. In addition, the apical lobe of the paramere is angled rather than rounded and the marginal macrosetae on the subgenital plates are apically clavate. The structure of the aedeagus is also slightly different (Fletcher 2000).

Fletcher (2000) provided a detailed description and figures.

 

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 [107, 109]

 

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