Austrimonus koebelei, Fletcher & Dai, 2018

Fletcher, Murray J. & Dai, Wu, 2018, A new genus Austrimonus for Eutettix melaleucae Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) and nine new species, Zootaxa 4387 (2), pp. 310-330 : 313-314

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.2.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:475FA4BE-EF7E-45CB-B34D-834C33859AD1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5984553

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/942E9B74-033A-4AB9-8318-09AC8FAB14E8

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:942E9B74-033A-4AB9-8318-09AC8FAB14E8

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Plazi

scientific name

Austrimonus koebelei
status

sp. nov.

Austrimonus koebelei View in CoL sp.nov.

zoobank.org:act:942E9B74-033A-4AB9-8318-09AC8FAB14E8 (Figs 5–6, 23)

Holotype, male, Sydney, NSW, 24.i.1905, Koebele ( BPBM)

Description. Head and thorax (Figs 5, 6) pale testaceous covered with fine light brown mottling except for ventral half of face. Tegmen (Fig. 5) whitish with fine light brown mottling interspersed with areas of denser brown mottling giving patchy appearance throughout.

Genitalia. Male:Subgenital plates ( Fig. 23B View FIGURE 23 ) narrow, evenly tapering to apical process. Parameres ( Fig. 23C View FIGURE 23 ) with preapical lobe well developed; apical process with slight preapical tooth. Connective ( Fig. 23C View FIGURE 23 ) elongate with stem slightly longer than arms. Aedeagus in posterior view ( Fig. 23E View FIGURE 23 ) with shafts curved dorsally, tapering to gonopore with narrow apical process extending beyond gonopore. In lateral view ( Fig.23D View FIGURE 23 ), shafts narrow, finely acuminate, curved from base then straight to apex of apical process. Basal apodeme ( Fig. 23D View FIGURE 23 ) very short, directed in line with shafts. Female: unknown.

Etymology. The species is named after Prof. Arthur Koebele who collected the holotype and whose collections in Australia in 1904–5 were the basis of G.W. Kirkaldy’s extensive contribution to our knowledge of Australian leafhoppers ( Kirkaldy 1906, 1907).

Comments. This species has closest similarity with M. melaleucae but differs in the structure of the aedeagus with narrow shafts mounted by a fine process directed dorsally and not bifurcated.

NSW

Royal Botanic Gardens, National Herbarium of New South Wales

BPBM

Bishop Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Austrimonus

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