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<i>Motschulskyia</i> (<i>Togaritettix</i>) <i>serratus</i> (Matsumura), adult.

Motschulskyia (Togaritettix) serratus (Matsumura), adult.

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Species Motschulskyia (Togaritettix) serratus (Matsumura, 1931)


Compiler and date details

21 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

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 (map not available)

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).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023 MEMBRACOIDEA 26-Jun-2023 MODIFIED
10-May-2022 CICADOMORPHA 24-May-2023 MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021 AUCHENORRHYNCHA 26-Jun-2023 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825 26-Jun-2023 MODIFIED Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019 26-Jun-2023 MODIFIED
26-Jun-2023 MODIFIED