Species Siphanta compacta Fletcher, 1985

Siphanta compacta Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Siphanta compacta Fletcher, M.J. 1985. Revision of the genus Siphanta Stål (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 110: 1-94 [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 9449 ♂ (coll.: 14-17.vii.1973, L.P. Kelsey, at light), 6.4 km SSW of Victoria River Downs, Northern Territory.

Introduction

This short squat species is recorded across the top end from Broome in NW Western Australia to the gulf country of Northern Queensland. It was not placed in a species group by Fletcher (1985) although it shows affinity with S. patruelis (Stål) from which it can be separated by its generally smaller size and the structures of the male genitalia.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Pale green fading to yellow, lacking red except for fore- and mid-legs speckled with red and black on femora, tibiae and tarsi. Tegminal granules dark at apex. Tegmen occasionally with brown markings. Head with vertex angularly produced apically. Tegmen obliquely truncate; sutural angle obtusely rounded; apical angle less obtusely rounded; M1+2 branched just proximal to level of apex of clavus. Male pygofer with dorsolateral corners roundly prominent, lacking distinct process. Parameres elongate with sharply pointed recurved process near apex. Female third valvulae short and broad with pilose area ventral. Second valvulae gap widely U-shaped (Fletcher 1985).

ID Keys

Fletcher 1985: 4
Fletcher, M.J. (2005). Illustrated Key to the species of the genus Siphanta Stål (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/flatid/siphanta/siph00.htm

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 1985. Revision of the genus Siphanta Stål (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 110: 1-94 [20–21]

History of changes