Species Navorillina bothrops Fennah, 1964

Navorillina bothrops Fennah, adult female

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• Navorillina bothrops Fennah, R.G. 1964. Three new genera of Eurybrachyidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from West Africa and Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 33(9-10): 157-162 [161].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: Capt. S.A. White), 'Navorillina' [probably Moorillyana South Well, Northern Territory] [26°57'S 133°16'E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♀, same data as holotype.

Introduction

A small hairy planthopper with tegmina narrowing markedly towards the apex. The undulating frons defines the genus. A female from W of Quilpie, Queensland in the M.J. Fletcher collection, may be a second species of the genus, also has this undulating frons but the coloration differs from that of the type.

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Finke (FIN)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Posterior portion of seventh abdominal sternite one-third length of anterior portion. Fuscous; pronotum behind lateral angles of vertex, anterior part of mesonotum and mesonotal carinae testaceous; laterodistal fields of frons interruptedly, clypeus except for a series of chevron-like stripes, 2 or 3 spots on pro- and meso-femora and tibiae, hind legs and abdomen testaceous-stramineous; raised laterobasal and median areas on frons, piceous, polished. Tegmina with corium fuscous with a broken dull yellow fascia from middle of costa to middle of claval suture and veins on a line from stigma to posterior margin, dull yellow; membrane hyaline, veins brown, with 2 transverse bands, fuscous. Female: length, 3.0 mm; tegmen, 3.7 mm. (Fennah 1964)

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1964. Three new genera of Eurybrachyidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from West Africa and Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 33(9-10): 157-162 [161]

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