Species Oteana sponsa (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Oteana sponsa (Kirkaldy), adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus sponsa Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [400].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM 1205 ♂ (coll: viii1904), Cairns, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [98].

Generic Combinations

• Oteana sponsa (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [98]

Introduction

A reasonably commmon species across the tropical north of Australia.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body including legs light brown (with a yellow or orange tinge), pronotum paler; forewing hyaline white or light brown with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown apically darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light brown; abdominal sternites light brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.2–7.4 mm, ♀ 7.2–8.6 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.4–1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching or not reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Mesonotum with evanescent or well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.0–3.5 times longer than wide; costa without tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca very short and wide with a long, flattened spine left lateral; a long, flattened spine right lateral; and often with 1–3 small spines. Flagellum membranous with sclerotised ridge, unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 92)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [99]

History of changes