Species Motschulskyia (Togaritettix) serratus (Matsumura, 1931)

Motschulskyia (Togaritettix) serratus (Matsumura), adult.

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• Togaritettix serratus Matsumura, S. 1931. A revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental typhlocybid — genera, with descriptions of new species and new genera. Insecta Matsumurana 6: 55-91 [71].

  Type data:

   Lectotype whereabouts unknown ♀ (coll.: vi. 1911), Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Dworakowska, I. 1971. On some genera of the Tribe Dikraneurini (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 19: 579-586 [580].
• Mahmoodiana acuta Ahmed, M. & Waheed, A. 1971. Two new genera of Typhlocybinae (Homoptera : Cicadellidae) feeding on rose (Rosa indica), in West Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 14: 116-117 [116].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHMUK ♂ (coll.: i.1969, A. Waheed, on rose), Lahore, West Pakistan.
• Dikraneura dorsalis Esaki, T. 1931. Undescribed Hemiptera from Japan and Formosa. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 13: 259-269 [267] [junior homonym; of Dikraneura unipuncta dorsalis Delong 1924].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown, Shikoku & Honshu, Japan.
• Dikraneura fragi Esaki, T. 1932. A lecture on the leafhoppers injurious to the rice plant. Mushi 8: 1–38 [24].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Yaku Is., Japan.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ishihara, T. 1953. A tentative checklist of the superfamily Cicadelloidea of Japan (Homoptera). Scientific Reports of the Matsuyama Agricultural College 11: 1-72 [26] (synonymy of D. dorsalis and D. fragi)
• Sohi, A.S. & Dworakowska, I. 1984. A review of Indian Typhlocybinae (Homoptera : Cicadellidae) from India. Oriental Insects 17: 159-213 [166] (synonymy of M. acuta)

Generic Combinations

• Motschulskyia (Togaritettix) serratus (Matsumura, 1931). —
  Dworakowska, I. 1971. On some genera of the Tribe Dikraneurini (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 19: 579-586 [579]

Introduction

This distinctively coloured little leafhopper has been found on a range of rosaceous plants in Australia and has almost certainly been introduced from the Oriental region on such a host.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder (associated flora: Rosa spp. [ROSACEAE]).

Associated Flora References

Ahmed, M. & Waheed, A. 1971. Two new genera of Typhlocybinae (Homoptera : Cicadellidae) feeding on rose (Rosa indica), in West Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 14: 116-117 [116] (Rosa spp.)

Diagnosis

Above pale yellowish. Vertex and pronotum white, in the middle black, this colour continues to the tip of scutellum and gradually broadening twoards the hind margin of pronotum, the extreme lateral margins of scutellum white. Elytron yellow, at the hind margin till to the tip fuscous, defined by black anteriorly and on its margin distinctly zigzag, at the costa near the base with an oblong white ring-spot, the costal crossvein being fuscous. Hind wing hyaline, iridescent. Abdomen in some individuals at the middle of dorsum infuscated. ♂ last ventral segment about as long as the valvula which is rounded at the hind margin, both being whity gray in colour; genital plates gradually slenderer towards the apices which are upturned and rounded, pygofor large, anal tube constricted at the base. ♀ last ventral segment at the hind margin produced blunt conically, on each side distinctly incised; coleostron about 2½ times as long as at the base broad, vagina scarcely protruding beyond the apex of coleostron. Length 3 mm (Matsumura 1931).

Diagnosis References

Matsumura, S. 1931. A revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental typhlocybid — genera, with descriptions of new species and new genera. Insecta Matsumurana 6: 55-91 [71]

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