Revision of the Scytinopteridae (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Scytinopteroidea) of the Queensland Triassic
Author
Lambkin, Kevin J.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4117
4
580
590
journal article
38935
10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.9
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1175-5326
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Mesoscytina australis
Tillyard, 1919
(
Figs 1–3
)
Mesoscytina australis
Tillyard, 1919
: 871
–872, text fig. 5.
Mesoscytina affinis
Tillyard, 1919
: 872
, text fig. 6.
Syn. nov.
Triassoscarta subcostalis
Tillyard, 1919
: 874–875, text fig. 8.
Syn. nov.
Material.
Holotype
tegmen GSQ 112a,
holotype
tegmen of
Mesoscytina affinis
GSQ 235 (labelled “Undoubtedly =
M. australis
B[enjamin]. D[unstan].”),
holotype
tegmen of
Triassoscarta subcostalis
GSQ 116a, all
Denmark
Hill. Three additional tegmina:
Denmark
Hill: “Tegmen G” GSQ 320a/b+; Esk: ACC: QM
F58693
+,?
F58694
+.
Description.
Tegmen
9.3–9.5 mm
long,
3.5–3.6 mm
wide (
holotype
9.5, 3.5), length/width 2.6–2.9; R gently curved basally, at point of curvature costal space wider than space between R and M; RA strongly inclined; no colour pattern detected.
Notes.
The
holotype
of
M. affinis
is the basal half of a tegmen identical in size and venation to that of the
holotype
of
M. australis
. The Esk tegmen, QM
F58693
(
Fig. 3
), although older and from a different formation, is referred to the species on its similar size and basic venation, although CuA is more deeply forked than in the
holotype
. It has dSc well preserved. The other Esk tegmen is the same size but poorly preserved. Its identity therefore remains doubtful.