Species Horouta spinosa Fletcher, 2004

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• Horouta spinosa Fletcher, M.J. 2004. A revision of the genus Horouta Knight with description of two new species and notes on other species of Deltocephalinae (Hemipter: Cicadellidae). General and Applied Entomology 33: 45-54 [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll: M.J. Fletcher, 17.ix.1974, at m.v. light), Pearl Beach, near Woy Woy, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) QDPI ♂ (6-17.iii.1981, yellow pan trap, open forest), Mount Tamborine, S.E. Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is only known from two males, one collected at light in the Sydney basin of New South Wales and the other in a yellow pan trap in SE Queensland. Both specimens are brachypterous but macropters may exist, as with other species of the genus. The most distinctive feature is the presence of elongate processes on the pygofer, a feature shared only with H. darwini Fletcher.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Small brachypterous species, ventrally dark brown to black with pale yellowish spotting on femora and tibiae. Face dark brown with yellowish striping on all parts. Vertex pale testaceous with line of six dark brown marginal flecks. Pronotum and mesonotum pale testaceous. Tegmen almost square in outline, pale testaceous with paler veins, dark brown smudge in clavus and indistinct brown mottling distally on anterior margin. Male genitalia: Pygofer with hind margin incurved, bearing elongate marginal spur on each side, directed transversely and almost reaching other margin of pygofer. Parameres with preapical shoulder directed posteriorly parallel with and about half length of apical process so that gap between is almost quadrate. Aedeagus with shaft curving evenly in apical half, with both pairs of elongate triangular processes almost straight and directed posteriorly. (Fletcher 2004).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher 2004: 46

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 2004. A revision of the genus Horouta Knight with description of two new species and notes on other species of Deltocephalinae (Hemipter: Cicadellidae). General and Applied Entomology 33: 45-54 [51]

 

History of changes

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