Species Paralasonia australis Muir, 1924

Paralasonia australis Muir, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paralasonia australis Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Ho.2757 ♂ (coll.: xii.1921, H. Hacker), National Park, Qlueensland.

Introduction

This delicate little planthopper with elongate lacy wings is probably green in life. It has been found in forest environments in SE Queensland and the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, New South Wales. There is also a record from near Quilpie in SW Queensland.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Mulga Lands (ML), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Ochraceous, perhaps when living green or greenish yellow; vertex with a longitudinal median black mark, the apical margin black, curving inward at the margins; frons with a small black mark in middle and a few at the sides, clypeus with four or five fuscous marks on each side; fuscous over carinae of nota; a small dark spot in the middle of the posterior margin of the abdominal terga. Tegmina and wings clear hyaline, veins black except the claval suture, base of claval veins and basal cell which are colourless or light yellow. Pygofer laterally compressed, lateral margin subangularly produced; anal segment small, anus at apex; genital styles large, subtriangular, the outer apical corner produced into a small, curved spine, the inner apical corner rounded. Aedeagus complex. The periandrium forming a funnel. The ventral margin of the apex produced into a membranous process, dorsal margin into two large processes, broad at base but pointed at apex, from within the funnel arise two pairs of processes, on the left they are both long, slender, straight spines, but on the right one is straight and slender, the other is broader at base and curved; the penis arises in the middle and is a curved, slender tube rounded at apex where it is cleft for a short distance, with a little spine on dorsal surface near apex. Male — Length 4.7 mm; tegmen 7 mm (Muir 1924).

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [36]

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