Species Warlucephala abbreviata Fletcher, 2006

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• Warlucephala abbreviata 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 [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K204211 ♂ (coll: x.1966, J.W. & F. Evans), Albany, Western Australia.

 

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

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).

 

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 [128]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
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