Species Dworena repleta (Walker, 1858)

Dworena repleta (Walker), adult

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Poeciloptera repleta Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [334].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (from Mr Strange's collection; holotype by monotypy), Australia
  Comment: Medler (1990) designated a lectotype from "Australia" and recognised a paralectotype from Moreton Bay. Walker (1858) only indicated that he had one specimen from "Australia. From Mr Strange's collection" which is presumably the specimen which Medler (1990) designated as lectotype. This specimen is recognised here as holotype by monotypy.
• Paratella modesta Melichar, L. 1902. Monographie der Acanaloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 17: 1-253 [122].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHRM ♂, Australia borealis.
  Paralectotype(s) NHMV sex unknown (This specimen is a misidentified specimen of Anzora unicolor (Walker)), New Zealand.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1986. The types of Flatidae (Homoptera) in the Stockholm Museum described by Stål, Melichar, Jacobi and Walker. Entomologica Scandinavica 17: 323-337 [331].
• Paratella fumaria Melichar, L. 1902. Monographie der Acanaloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 17: 1-253 [122].

  Type data:

   Lectotype HNHM ♂ (coll.: Biro, 1900), Parramatta, New South Wales.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP 2 ♀, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1985. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) III. Lectotype designations and taxonomic notes on species in the Budapest Museum. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 46(2): 111-116 [114].
• Paratella fusconigra Melichar, L. 1902. Monographie der Acanaloniiden und Flatiden (Homoptera) (Fortsetzung). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 17: 1-253 [121].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀ (coll.: Thorey; holotype by monotypy), Australia borealis.
• Sephena nigrifrons Schmidt, E. 1905. Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Fulgoridae. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 66: 376-383 [378].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMH 277 ♀ (coll: A.L. Schrader, 25.ix.1896), Australia
  Comment: Schmidt (1905) cited a second female specimen but Medler (1992) was unable to find it.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1992. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XVI. A review of species in the Hamburg Museum with lectotype designations (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea). Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg 10: 175-186 [181].
• Sephena rubida Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [457].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM 5451 ♀ (coll.: Koebele, i.1905), Sydney, New South Wales.
  Paralectotype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll: Koebele, ii.1905), Sydney, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Medler, J.T. 1987. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XI. Taxonomic notes on Kirkaldy Types in the Bishop Museum, with illustrations of the genitalia of male lectotypes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 27: 115-125 [122].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Medler, J.T. 1985. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) III. Lectotype designations and taxonomic notes on species in the Budapest Museum. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 46(2): 111-116 [114] (synonymy of P. fumaria Melichar with P. modesta Melichar)
• Medler, J.T. 1986. Anzora and Dworena, two new genera erected for Australian species formerly placed in Paratella and Sephena. (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Insecta Mundi 1(4): 206-208 [207] (synonymy of P. fusconigra Melichar and P. rubida Kirkaldy with P. modesta Melichar)
• Medler, J.T. 1992. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XVI. A review of species in the Hamburg Museum with lectotype designations (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea). Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg 10: 175-186 [181] (synonymy of S. nigrifrons Schmidt with P. modesta Melichar)
• Medler, J.T. 2001. Flatidae of New Guinea and adjacent areas (Homoptera: Flatidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 8: 1-117 [67] (synonymy of P. modesta Melichar with P. repleta Walker)

Generic Combinations

• Dworena repleta (Walker, 1858). —
  Medler, J.T. 1990. Types of Flatidae (Homoptera) XIV. Walker and Distant types in the British Museum. Oriental Insects 24: 127–195 [157]

Introduction

This species is darker than D. hyacintha and lacks the distinctive dark spots on the tegmen. It is distributed along the east coast from SE Queensland to the Sydney basin, New South Wales. Medler (2001) also recorded it from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, where it was found on Cassia alata L. (Caesalpiniaceae).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

This species has a very dark appearance due to the black body and dark brown to black tegmina. Small red brown spots are scattered on the disc membrance with a larger round spot at the middle of the discal cell crossvein. Metatibial spine formula 1 : 7 : 9. The short process at the apex of the aedeagus is a diagnostic character. Length: 6.5–7 mm, with males slightly smaller than females (Medler 1986, of D. modesta).

ID Keys

Medler 1986: 207

Diagnosis References

Medler, J.T. 1986. Anzora and Dworena, two new genera erected for Australian species formerly placed in Paratella and Sephena. (Homoptera: Fulgoridae). Insecta Mundi 1(4): 206-208 [207–208]

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