Species Siphanta luteolineata Fletcher, 1985

Siphanta luteolineata Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Siphanta luteolineata Fletcher, M.J. 1985. Revision of the genus Siphanta Stål (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 110: 1-94 [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: 18.vi.1960, C.N. Smithers, savannah woodland), Rocky River, Queensland.

Introduction

This species has been recorded from several localities on Cape York Peninsula and on Lizard Island, all in far North Queensland. It is quite distinctive with concave, smooth vertex and no crossveins in the sutural cell of the clavus. It is also brightly coloured.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

roseicincta Group. Head short, vertex no more than ½ as long as wide at base. Apical margin of vertex roundly or angularly produced slightly. Frons wider than long or as wide as long with strong median longitudinal carina but lateral carinae obsolete or indicated at very apex only. Tegmen narrow with apical angle rounded and sutural angle rounded or obtusely angulate, never produced. M1+2 branched at about middle of tegmen, well before apex of clavus. Green, fading to yellow or orange in dried specimens. Frons dark brown in most species. Apex of head, carinae of frons, outer claval vein, fore- and mid-tibiae and all tarsi usually marked with red. Tegminal granules black at tip. Margin of tegmen except base of costal margin and claval margin to apex of clavus marked with red.
S. luteolineata. Frons dark brown. Vertex orange with front margin evenly spotted with red and cream. Pronotum orange with three green longitudinal stripes, one in midline and one along each lateral carina reaching hind margin. Lateral portion of pronotum below level of eyes green. Mesonotum orange with median green stripe and lateral green stripes just inside lateral carinae. Lateral portion of mesonotum near tegula green. Green fading to yellow or cream in dried specimens. Tegmen pale green with all veins broadly orange. Costal margin to apex of costal cell pale, not marked with red. Lateral carinae of frons obsolete; vertex concave, surface smooth without granulations. Tegmen with claval cell closest to claval suture without crossveins, occasionally with one or two very faintly indicated. Male pygofer with long straight pointed process reaching nearly to apex of paramere. Paramere narrow with broad recurved process near apex. Female third valvulae triangular with pilose area ventral. Second valvulae gap U-shaped with apex of valvulae convergent (Fletcher 1985).

ID Keys

Fletcher 1985: 4–6
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 [35–36]

History of changes