Goniagnathus crocodontis Fletcher

Fletcher, Murray J. & Zahniser, James N., 2008, The first record of Goniagnathini from Australia with description of four new species of Goniagnathus Fieber (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), Zootaxa 1692, pp. 43-54 : 50

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.180619

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6234869

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Goniagnathus crocodontis Fletcher
status

sp. nov.

Goniagnathus crocodontis Fletcher View in CoL sp.nov.

( Figures 3, 9 View FIGURES 7 – 12 , 35–39 View FIGURES 35 – 39. G )

Holotype: male, Sth Alligator Inn, NT, 12.40S 132.30E. 7–9.vii.1979, G. Monteith and D. Cook, m. v. light (QM)

Paratype: Northern Territory: male, same data as holotype (QM)

Colour: generally rich chocolate brown with light brown and cream speckling, lateral margin of pronotum cream extending onto tegmen as irregular cream flash, apical half of costal margin of tegmen and three round spots along hind margin also cream.

Morphology: Brachypterous in known specimens. Length (estimate) 3.5 mm

Male genitalia: Pygofer ( Figure 35 View FIGURES 35 – 39. G ) rounded apically, bearing one or two macrosetae on posterodorsal margin. Subgenital plates ( Figure 36 View FIGURES 35 – 39. G ) fused to form broadly quadrate plate, slightly emarginate medially. Parameres ( Figure 37 View FIGURES 35 – 39. G ) with apical section very short, broad, finely rugose, shallowly sinuate apically; basal section broad laterally, narrow medially to articulation with connective. Aedeagus in lateral view ( Figure 38 View FIGURES 35 – 39. G ) curving slightly anterodorsally, apically acute; in posterior view ( Figure 39 View FIGURES 35 – 39. G ) broad-lanceolate with row of 10– 12 strong curved teeth laterally, apically shortly bifurcate to form pair of triangular processes beyond gonopore.

Female: unknown.

Etymology: The specific name is derived from dontis = tooth combined with an abbreviated “crocodile” and refers to the strongly toothed margin of the aedeagus and not the type locality.

Notes: This is the most distinctively coloured species of Goniagnathus with the lateral flash of cream against the general chocolate brown colouring. The broad aedeagus margined with strong serrations is also quite distinctive. The length measurement given here is an estimate because both male specimens had the abdomen removed for genitalia examination prior to measurements being taken. This is the most northerly distributed species of Goniagnathus in Australia although a single specimen of G. pectinatus is known from N. Qld.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Goniagnathus

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