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<i>Warlucephala abbreviata</i> Fletcher, brachypterous male.

Warlucephala abbreviata Fletcher, brachypterous male.

<i>Warlucephala abbreviata</i> Fletcher, brachypterous female.

Warlucephala abbreviata Fletcher, brachypterous female.

<i>Warlucephala abbreviata</i> Fletcher, macropterous female.

Warlucephala abbreviata Fletcher, macropterous female.

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Species Warlucephala abbreviata Fletcher, 2006


Compiler and date details

29 June 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Introduction

This species was described from a series of 13 specimens, all from Albany, SW Western Australia. The type series includes males and females, and brachypterous and macropterous specimens which may indicate that other species of the genus are also dimorphic. The macropterous female has a longer head than the brachypterous females.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale coffee brown. Face slightly darker toward margin with vertex, with faint pale lateral striping and short median pale band. Margin between face and vertex marked with cream band bordered on both sides with dark brown, this band convex laterally to reveal narrowly part of frontoclypeus when viewed dorsally. Vertex pale coffee with pale cream median striope which continues less distinctly onto pronotum which also bears vague stripes laterally parallel to median. Tegmina pale translucent testaceous in brachypters, darker in cells of macropter. Morphology.: Anteclypeus tapering base to apex, more strongly narrowed beyond lora which are widely separated from face margin. Vertex triangular, slightly convex, longer than wide between eyes, shagreen. pronotum short, obscurely transversely wrinkled. Tegmina short quadrate in brachypters, reaching to apex of abdomen in macropter which has appendix extending around apex of tegmen, apical cells long so that preapical cells are situated at around midlength of tegmen. First preapical cell short, rounded, third closed basally. Male genitalia.: Pygofer of medium length, apically extended with rounded lobe bearing numerous macrosetae. Subgenital plates triangular, not nearly reaching as far posteriorly as pygofer with evenly spaced short macrosetae on concave outer margins. Parameres dark, short, broad, flattened, apically truncate to excavate. Connective with arms longer than main body. Aedeagal shaft evenly curved dorsally, tapered base to apex but slightly expanded apically with flange around gonopore. Size. brachypterous male 3.2–3.4, brachypterous female 4.0–4.3mm, macropterous female 4.2mm. (Fletcher 2006).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019 13-Aug-2013 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 16-May-2012 MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019 05-Aug-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)