Species Siphanta recurva Fletcher, 1985

Museums

Regional Maps

• Siphanta recurva 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 SAMA 21156 ♂ (coll.: A.M. Lea), Cairns district, Queensland.

Introduction

This species, from the coastal areas of north Queensland, is very similar in external appearance to several other species in the acuta group and examination of male genitalia is the only reliable means of differentiating them.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Ground colour yellow (probably leaf green in life) with red on head and legs very faint. Red border of tegmen extending short distance onto apical portion of clavus and over most of costal margin. Granules concolorous with ground colour of tegmen. Head with frons evenly rounded laterally, with three carinae; vertex shortish, slightly produced apically. Tegmen with apical angle rounded; sutural angle rightangled; apical margin lightly convex. Male pygofer with short pointed process. Hind margin of pygofer on each side slightly excavate below process. Paramere elongate, triangular with short triangular 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 [16–17]

History of changes