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Australnirvana adelaideae Evans 1938, n. comb.

Description

Australnirvana adelaideae (Evans, 1938), n. comb.

(Figs 1–20)

Nirvana adelaideae Evans, 1938: 5.

Description. Body length (including forewing): ♂, 4.8 mm; ♀, 6.2 mm. Male coloration (Figs 1–3) predominantly greenish-yellow, with a median black stripe extended from apex of crown to end of clavus, forewing with subapical black spot and pale brown basal markings, one false vein present in outer apical cell. Female (Figs 10–12) similar to male in coloration but median black stripe narrower and other dark markings less well developed.

Male pygofer (Figs 5, 6, 18) sclerotized with 11 macrosetae along dorsoapical and ventralapical margin; ventral margin with very short lobe curved mesad with 4 small rigid setae. Subgenital plate (Figs 5, 9) apex truncate, with two short dorsoapical macrosetae. Aedeagal shaft (Figs 7, 8, 19, 20) straight in both lateral and ventral view, narrowed distally in ventral view, with pair of lateral preapical processes extended basolaterad and smaller median ventral spines.

Material examined. AUSTRALIA: 1♂ 1♀ (ASCT), New South Wales, Orange, 20 Jan.1998, BC. McNeil, ex Mexican Orange [Choisya ternata Kunth].

Notes

Published as part of Wang, Yang, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2016, Australnirvana, a new leafhopper genus of Nirvanini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) from Australia, pp. 134-140 in Zootaxa 4168 (1) on pages 138-139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/258759

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ASCT
Event date
1998-01-20
Verbatim event date
1998-01-20
Scientific name authorship
Evans
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Australnirvana
Species
adelaideae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Australnirvana adelaideae (Evans, 1938) sec. Wang, Dietrich & Zhang, 2016

References

  • Evans, J. W. (1938) Australian leaf-hoppers (Homoptera, Jassoidea): Part 8. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1938, 1 - 18.