Species Austrimonus curvatus Fletcher and Dai, 2018

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• Austrimonus curvatus 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 [314].
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  Type data:

   Holotype QM T207233). ♂ (coll: J.W. Turner, 22.iii.1985, at light), Yam Island, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is known from a handful of specimens from Yam Island in Torres Strait to the Gulf country and western Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Gulf Plains (GUP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head sordid yellow or brownish with lateral pale markings. Vertex and pronotum pale cream testaceous with faint brown markings, scutellum with lateral angles pale orange or pale brown. Tegmen whitish translucent with brown markings throughout, becoming darker towards apex where veins are highlighted in brown; pale patch on costal margin at about midlength. Genitalia. Male: Subgenital plates narrow triangular, apically tapered without distinct apical lobe. Parameres with preapical lobe small, rounded; apical process curved laterally with slight angle on internal margin. Connective long with stem much longer than arms. Aedeagus, in posterior view, with shafts divergent, bearing elongate, apically acute process apparently at midlength; in lateral view, aedeagal shafts strongly curved anteriorly with basal process fused to posterior margin of shaft to about midlength and then diverging to form elongate acute process curved anteriorly. Basal apodeme long, tapered to blunt apex, extended at right angles to base of shaft. 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 [314–317]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962	28-Feb-2018	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher