Species Orosius brunneus Fletcher & Löcker, 2016

Museums

Regional Maps

• Orosius brunneus 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] [17].
  Zoobank Registration Number:http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:148F80FE-3C29-49CB-9CD4-63EB733498AF

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM ♂ (coll: 6.v.2006, S. Callan & R. Graham, [N27], mounted ex ethanol), Barrow Island, Western Australia [20°52′ 22″S 115°19′48″E,].

 

Introduction

This small brown species with its distinctive longitudinal pale stripe along the tegmen is only known from Barrow Island, Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is easily recognisable because of its small size and distinctive colouration, particularly the irregular pale stripe along the tegmen. The species is well supported by COI sequence data. The specimens currently available are
semimacropterous, a feature otherwise not found in species of Orosius (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] [17–18]

 

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