Species Orosius albifrons Fletcher & Löcker, 2016

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• Orosius albifrons Fletcher, M.J., Löcker, H., Mitchell, A. & Gopurenko, D. 2016. A revision of the genus Orosius Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) based on male genitalia and DNA barcoding. Austral Entomology [Date published Early version published online 1/9/2016: Paper version in 2017 on Vol. 56(2): 198–217] [14].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM ♂ (coll: 6.v.2006, S. Callan and R. Graham, [N27], mounted ex ethanol), Barrow Island [20°52′ 22″S 115°26′35″E].

 

Introduction

This species is only known from Barrow Island, Western Australia and is distinctive in having an almost entirely white face contrasting with the filigree brown markings found elsewhere on the body.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is distinctive in its white face which contrasts to the rest of the body and tegmina which have the dark brown filigree patterning typical of most species of the genus. The male aedeagus is similar to that of O. pallidus Fletcher & Löcker but the shafts converge slightly at the very apex, while in O. pallidus they do not converge apically (Fletcher et al. 2016).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher et al. 2016: 5

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J., Löcker, H., Mitchell, A. & Gopurenko, D. 2016. A revision of the genus Orosius Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) based on male genitalia and DNA barcoding. Austral Entomology [Date published Early version published online 1/9/2016: Paper version in 2017 on Vol. 56(2): 198–217] [14–16]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	03-Nov-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
	Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962	09-Sep-2016	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher