Species Monomalpha fletcheri Emeljanov, 2000

Monomalpha fletcheri Emeljanov, adult male

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Monomalpha fletcheri Emeljanov, A.F. 2000. New genera of the family Cixiidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) from Australia and neighbouring Territories. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 79(1): 12-34 [16].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCT00216147 ♂ (coll.: 4.vii.1991, L. Wilson, uv light), Lord Howe Island.
  Paratype(s) ASCU 3♀, 5♂, same locality as holotype.

  Secondary source:

   Emeljanov, A.F. 2000. New genera of the Family Cixiidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) from Australia and neighboring Territories. [translation]. Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 80(3): 251-270 [255].

Introduction

This is the only cixiid recorded from Lord Howe Island and is endemic to the island. The specimens were mainly collected at uv light so there is no information about the biology of the species.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Endemic to Lord Howe Island

Australian Endemic.

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Somewhat more stumpy leafhoppers [sic] with larger head and shorter and wider eumetope in comparison with M. gratiosa sp. n. On fore wing, M usually three-pointed (MA two-pointed), first bifurcation situated somewhat more distally to nodal line. Body pale fuscous, with greenish tint. Male without pattern, female with eroded spotty-eye-shaped pattern on fore wing. Pronotum dorsally lightened, scutellum infuscate, carinae pale. Fore wing semihyaline, with veins slightly more infuscate in some places; crossveins on membrane more strongly infuscate; pale and dark sections of veins together with abundant fuscous bent spots forming speckled pattern in specimens with moderately developed pattern; incomplete transverse cross bands forming in most intensely colored females, with arcuate sections of the cross bands constituting more or less distinct "eyes" (incomplete small rings of spots and bracket-shaped spots). The first rather indistinct cross band lying in anterior quarter of corium. The most distinct cross band stretching across middle of corium and clavus; its corial section lying distal to claval section at a distance equal to cross band width. Bracket-shaped spot, lying on clavus anteriorly to claval section, nearly adjoining claval section of cross band to form an incomplete ring. A less distinct ring formed by adjacent section of cross band, also arcuate, running across corium and the anterior spot. Posterior quarter of corium with the third cross band connected with the preceding cross band by a protuberance along intercubital area. One more bracket-shaped spot, broken anteriorly, stretching between veins M and CuA1 at the level of anterior margin of pterostigma. Body length ♂ 4.5–4.7 mm, ♀ 4.8–5.0 mm. (Emeljanov 2000)

Diagnosis References

Emeljanov, A.F. 2000. New genera of the Family Cixiidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) from Australia and neighboring Territories. [translation]. Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 80(3): 251-270 [255]

General References

Löcker, B. 2020. Revision of the Australian planthopper genus Monomalpha Emeljanov with the description of the new genus Latissima (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae: Cixiini). Zootaxa 4858(3): 375–393

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