Species Perkinsiella bakeri Muir, 1916

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• Perkinsiella bakeri Muir, F. 1916. Additions to the known Philippine Delphacidae (Hemiptera). Philippine Journal of Science. Section D. General Biology, Ethnology and Anthropology 11(6): 369–385 [379].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, ♀, quantity unknown (coll: Baker, Muir, on sugar cane and sorghum), Los Banos, Laguna, Luzon, Philippines.

Introduction

This species, which was added to the Australian fauna by Bellis et al. (2013), is distinctive in its coloration, particularly the dark lateral margins of the pronotum and mesonotum, and male genitalia.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Male. Macropterous form; structure typical. Vertex and face brown, lighter spots coalescing and forming small bands across face, clypeus and antennae darker brown; pro- and mesonotum light in middle, dark brown outside of lateral carinae; rest of thorax, coxae, femora and abdomen dark brown; tibiae and tarsi light brown, spur on hind tibiae dark brown on outer side. Tegmina hyaline, fuscous brown, lighter over basal half, dark over apical half, especially distad of clavus; a triangular, lighter mark at end of costal cell and a smaller spot at apex of each apical cell, a small dark spot at apex of claval margin, rest of claval margin white or yellowish white; veins closely studded with black granules; wings hyaline, veins dark. Pygophor slightly compressed laterally, ventral edge medially produced into a small plate which is bifid at apex; at each side of base of plate the pygophor is slightly depressed; anal segment with a long, thin, inwardly curved spine from each ventral corner, spines reaching across pygophor; genital styles small, basal portion spindle-shaped, slightly flattened, apex drawn to a point which is at right angles to basal portion. Length, 2.7 mm; tegmen 4.
Female. Macropterous form, similar to male. Brachypterous form: heavier in build than the male, especially the abdomen, also lighter in colour; tegmina reaching about one fourth from apex of abdomen, hyaline, veins with brown granules, margin of clavus whitish with dark mark at apex; wings rudimentary (Muir 1916).

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1916. Additions to the known Philippine Delphacidae (Hemiptera). Philippine Journal of Science. Section D. General Biology, Ethnology and Anthropology 11(6): 369–385 [379]

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