Species Siphanta montana Fletcher, 1985

Siphanta montana Fletcher, holotype male

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Siphanta montana Fletcher, M.J. 1985. Revision of the genus Siphanta Stål (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 110: 1-94 [16].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: 20.iii.1975, 540 m, malaise trap, D.K. McAlpine), Monto district, Bulburin, Queensland [24°31'S 151°29'E].

Introduction

This species is known from a single male from the south brigalow belt of SE Queensland. It was placed in the acuta group by Fletcher (1985) and it is very similar in general features to several other species in the group. It is only by examination of the male genitalia that the species can be reliably identified.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

acuta Group. Head produced medially in front of eyes so that frons apically convex and vertex at least half as long as wide. Frons with three short longitudinal indicated near apex. Tegmen triangular with apical angle rounded and sutural angle right-angled or acutely produced dorsally. M1+2 branched level with apex of clavus. Coloration green or grey-green, often fading to yellow in dried specimens. Males usually duller than females. Apex of head, apices of fore- and mid-tibiae and all tarsi and often lateral angles of frons marked with red. Tegmen with minute granulations in all cells leaving bare circular spot in centre of each cell. Costal margin pallid, then narrowly red around apical margin and claval margin to apex of clavus. Individuals may lack all red coloration and show other variation.
S. montana. Minute orange granulations of tegmen absent from narrow border interior to marginal red band so that tegmen has fine pale green line inside red margin. This line concolorous with central bare patch in each cell. Holotype with dark mark at first branching of M1+2, which may not be found in all specimens. Frons parallel-sided with slight prominence level with antennae; vertex more or less evenly rounded anteriorly, slightly angulate medially. Tegmen with apical angle roundly right-angled; sutural angle produced dorsally to acute point; apical margin straight. Male pygofer with elongate bluntly pointed process. Paramere apically truncate with short, recurved, pointed process mounted near apex. Female unknown (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 [16]

History of changes