Species Stenopsoides truncatus Semeraro, 2021

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• Stenopsoides truncatus Semeraro, L., Fletcher, M.J., Malipatil, M.B., Constant, J. and New, T.R. 2021. Revision of a unique Australian leafhopper genus Stenopsoides Evans (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae: Macropsini). Zootaxa 4999(2): 117–131 [126].

  Type data:

   Holotype WADA ♀ (coll: 23.ix.1986.,K.T. Richards), 35 km NW Bandya Station, Western Australia [27°28’14”S, 121°53’32”E].

 

Introduction

This species is based on a single female specimen collected in central Murchison bioregion in Western Australia. Nothing is known of its biology.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Murchison (MUR)

Diagnosis

Stenopsoides truncatus is most similar in appearance to S. newi in colouration, being mostly yellow with orange on face, legs and base of tegmen but is distinguished by being slightly smaller in body length. It differs from all other species in the shape of the pronotal extension, being more constricted at the base, with parallel lateral margins (when viewed dorsally), and being truncate at the apex (the pronotum is either tapering to a rounded apex or enlarged and dorsoventrally flattened in the other species). It is similar to S. newi in having no brown dots on the tegmen while has brown dots evenly over tegmen and S. turneri has dots only in the costal cells (Semeraro et al. 2021).

 

Diagnosis References

Semeraro, L., Fletcher, M.J., Malipatil, M.B., Constant, J. and New, T.R. 2021. Revision of a unique Australian leafhopper genus Stenopsoides Evans (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae: Macropsini). Zootaxa 4999(2): 117–131 [128]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CICADOMORPHA	02-Sep-2021	ADDED