Species Austrimonus luteus Fletcher and Dai, 2018

Austrimonus luteus Fletcher and Dai, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Austrimonus luteus Fletcher, M.J. and Dai, W. 2018. A new genus Austrimonus for Eutettix melaleucae Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) and nine new species. Zootaxa 4387(2): 310–330 [317].
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  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE004701 ♂ (coll: 6.xii.1986, M.S. & B.J. Moulds), Bald Hill Station, near Cooktown, North Queensland.

Introduction

This species is distributed across northern Australia from the Northern Territory to Cape York Peninsula in Queensland and is also known from the Lamington district of Papua New Guinea. Only two of the known species extends beyond Australia, both to PNG.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Pine Creek (PCK)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Face pale testaceous, vertex with some pale orange markings on either side of midline and some fine brown speckling along apical margin. Pronotum and scutellum pale orange with faint brown markings. Tegmen pale whitish translucent with small brown speckles scattered sparsely across surface, veins pale brown, darker in apical area. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plates narrow triangular, tapering into apical process. Parameres with preapical lobe well developed, angular, apical process directed laterally with distinct preapical angular prominence. Connective long with stem distinctly longer than arms. Aedeagus, in posterior view with long basal processes diverging from base and tapering from base to acute apex, obscuring shafts; in lateral view, basal processes curve dorsally, more so in apical section, processes not fused at all to shafts which curve evenly dorsally, of even width from base to apex. Gonopore apical. Basal apodeme short, straight, at right angles to base of shafts. Female: unknown (Fletcher and Dai 2018)

ID Keys

Fletcher and Dai 2018: 311–312

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. and Dai, W. 2018. A new genus Austrimonus for Eutettix melaleucae Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) and nine new species. Zootaxa 4387(2): 310–330 [317–319]

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