Genus Warlucephala Fletcher, 2006
Warlucephala arunda (Jacobi), type species of Warlucephala Fletcher.
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Genus Warlucephala Fletcher, 2006
Compiler and date details
29 June 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Warlucephala Fletcher, M.J. 2006. A new genus, Warlucephala, for the reception of Deltocephalus arunda Jacobi, 1909, and two new species (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Records of the Australian Museum 58: 125-128 [125].
Type species:
Deltocephalus arunda Jacobi, 1909 by original designation.
Introduction
This small endemic genus contains three species, two in SW Western Australia and one in the high country of New South Wales. The generic name combines flat plain (warlu: Nyungar language of Northwestern Australia) with head (cephalus, Latin) and reflects the extensive flat vertex of these species. The species all show some degree of brachyptery although W. abbreviata Fletcher is known in a fully winged form as well so such dimorphy might be present in all species.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Diagnosis
Head flat dorsally, convex on face with frontoclypeus large, anteclypeus parallel-sided or tapered to level with lora, then narrowed to apex. Vertex arrow-shaped with longitudinal median furrow around distinct coronal suture which extends from base to around three quarters length of vertex. Vertex meeting face at acute angle, sometimes marginally carinate over median section. Tegmina fully brachypterous, semi-brachypterous or macropterous. Male genitalia: pygofer extended posteriorly as rounded lobe bearing macrosetae. Subgenital plates narrow triangular to elongate, bearing row of macrosetae on outer margins. Parameres modified with apical process rounded, not pointed. Aedeagus simple tubular, without processes other than apical extension of various form beyond gonopore (Fletcher 2006).
Diagnosis References
Fletcher, M.J. 2006. A new genus, Warlucephala, for the reception of Deltocephalus arunda Jacobi, 1909, and two new species (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Records of the Australian Museum 58: 125-128 [125–126]
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