Species Temenites ancon Fennah, 1965

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• Temenites ancon Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [16].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 30.iii.1956, Kirkpatrick), Brisbane, Queensland.

Introduction

This dark-coloured species was based on a single brachypterous male from Brisbane, SE Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Castaneous-piceous; frons, vertex, pronotum, mesonotum, femora apically, tibiae except post-tibiae near base, and tarsi, stramineous; clypeus, genae, most of first antennal segment and basal half of second, brownish-yellow; abdominal tergites laterally orange or pale brown; genital styles and median portion of diaphragm yellowish brown. Tegmina (brachypterous) castaneous-piceous, except at apical margin, which is whitish hyaline, veins concolorous except for a few irregular veinlets near apical margin, which are pale. Vertex shorter submedially than broad at base (about 1.8 : 1), obtusely rounding into frons, hollowed between carinae, submedian carinae not uniting at apex of vertex, basal compartment of vertex wider at hind margin than greatest length (3.0 : 1) and than median length (4 : 1); frons in middle line longer than wide at widest part (nearly 2 : 1), widest at level of lower margin of eyes, lateral margins convex, median carina rather widely forked at level of lower margin of eyes, clypeus at base distinctly wider than frons at apex, in profile strongly convex, postclypeal disc shorter than broad at base (1 : 1.2), anteclypeus in profile strongly curved caudad so that entire clypeus in profile is strongly bilobately convex; antennae reaching approximately to level of middle of clypeus, basal segment scarcely longer than broad (1.1 : 1), laterally compressed, expanding distad; second segment longer than first (1.8 : 1) with a shallow sulcus near lower margin; ocelli represented only by a scar. Pronotum with disc shorter in middle line than broad at anterior margin (about 1 : 2) lateral carinae straight, not attaining hind margin. Post-tibial spur not elongate, with 18 teeth. Anal segment of ♂ short, broader than long, latero-apical angles very widely separated, each produced ventrally in a stout process incurved mesad and acuminate distally. Pygofer with posterior opening as broad as long, dorso-lateral angles little produced, lateral margins in profile convex, diaphragm with dorsal margin very deeply excavate, middle portion very short, in form of a polished horizontal plate, medioventral process absent. Aedeagus long, stout, porrect, strongly compressed laterally, ornamented near dorsal and ventral margins on both sides with irregular coarse teeth; orifice on right near apex; a long stout rod-like process arising at base of aedeagus, directed ventro-caudad and slightly surpassing diaphragm, narrowly bifurcate apically. Genital styles rather long, each slightly curved and twisted, shallowly expanding to middle, where the inner margin bears a small stout spine, thence tapering to a slender process at apex, weakly curved laterad at tip. ♂ (brachypterous): length, 2.8 mm. (Fennah 1965)

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [16]

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