Species Macropsella recta Yang, Dietrich and Zhang, 2017
Compiler and date details
5 June 2017 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Macropsella recta Yang, L.Y., Dietrich, C.H. & Zhang, Y.L. 2017. Three new Macropsini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) leafhopper species from Australia. Zootaxa 4273(2): 271–278 [272].
Type data:
Holotype QMBA ♂ (coll: 7 Feb 2011, K. Hill, D. Marshall, C. Owen, M. Moulds and M. Humphrey, MV light, 395m,), Kuranda, Queensland [16º48.923’S, 145º38.550’E].
Paratype(s) INHS 3 ♂ 5♀, same as the holotype.
Introduction
This species, from the Wet Tropics of North Queensland, is the first from northern Australia.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Length. ♂ 3.0–3.2 mm, ♀ 3.4–3.5 mm. Body light brown. Head and pronotum with punctuation darker than surrounding area. Mesonotal triangles and scutellum brown with darker speckles and dark brown lateral corners. Forewing translucent brown, veins usually marked with white spots but otherwise concolorous with membrane. Face yellowish brown, striations of same color. Eyes red brown. Body wedge shaped. Head, face, pronotum and scutellum with dense striations and punctations, Median longitudinal carina on face, pronotum and scutelllum distinct. Head width equal or subequal to pronotum. Crown short. Pronotum moderately to distinctly declivous anteriorly, striae oblique. Scutellum sometimes pitted, with median carina along entire length. Forewing with 3 preapical cells. Hind tibial chaetotaxy PD 11, AD 8, AV 5. Face narrower between eyes than its median length; with lower part of face inflated; distance between ocelli 3 times distance from ocellus to adjacent eye; coronal pits poorly developed, slightly further apart than ocelli; anteclypeus small. Male genitalia. Male pygofer short with truncate apex, armed with posterior spine directed laterad and small lobe directed caudad, pygofer bearing distinct group of setae on either side of posterior half. Subgenital plates parallel-sided from base to evenly rounded apex, with numerous irregularly arranged fine setae, dorsal preapical setae longest. Aedeagus tubular, with preatrium short, shaft compressed, in lateral view nearly straight in basal 2/3 with anterodorsal prominence preapically, apex abruptly narrowed and curved anterodorsad with rounded apex; in posterior view with atrium pear-shaped, shaft slender, parallel-sided, gonopore apical. Dorsal connective almost reaching dorsal margin of pygofer, situate in both lateral and posterior views, flattened and tapered dorsoapically. Style slender, angled on basal 1/3, gradually tapering distally, with slightly reflexed tips. Connective small, posterior margin truncate, median anterior lobe well developed between dorsally bent anterolateral arms. Female. Body coloration and appearance similar to male, but the former has paler colored face.
The new species is similar to M. novabritanniae (Evans) but differs in the shape of the aedeagus and dorsal connective (Yang et al. 2017).
Diagnosis References
Yang, L.Y., Dietrich, C.H. & Zhang, Y.L. 2017. Three new Macropsini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) leafhopper species from Australia. Zootaxa 4273(2): 271–278 [272]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macropsinae Evans, 1935 | 05-Jun-2017 | ADDED | Dr Murray Fletcher |