A new genus and ten new species of jumping plant lice (Hemiptera: Triozidae) from Allocasuarina (Casuarinaceae) in Australia
Author
Taylor, Gary S.
Author
Jennings, John T.
Author
Purcell, Matthew F.
Author
Austin, Andy D.
text
Zootaxa
2011
3009
1
45
journal article
46929
10.5281/zenodo.278552
838af845-02e8-4e78-93f7-f1643e0e8b36
1175-5326
278552
Acanthocasuarina muellerianae
Taylor
,
sp. nov.
Figs 103–110
,
127–129
,
139
; Tables 1–5, 8
Types
.
AUSTRALIA
, South
Australia
:
Holotype
: 1 3 (slide) Kangaroo Island,
5 km
W Vivonne Bay,
35°59.123’S
,
137°07.088’E
, G.S. Taylor & J.T. Jennings,
9.ii.2008
, swept from
Allocasuarina muelleriana
, ABCL 2008 518 (SAMA).
Paratypes
:
7 3, 15
Ƥ, 1 nymph (slide) same data as
holotype
(ANIC, SAMA, WINC).
FIGURES 84–92.
Acanthocasuarina diminutae
sp. nov.
: (84), habitus, male (dorsal aspect); (85), habitus, female (dorsal aspect); (86), habitus male (lateral aspect); (87), habitus female (lateral aspect); (88), fore wing, male; (89), fore wing, female; (90), head, male (dorsal aspect); (91), head, female (dorsal aspect); (92), nymphal exuvium (dorsal aspect). Scale = 0.5 mm.
FIGURES 93–102.
Acanthocasuarina acutivalvis
sp. nov.
,
Ac. campestris
sp. nov.
, and
Ac. diminutae
sp. nov.
:
Ac. acutivalvis
: (93), male terminalia (lateral aspect); (94), paramere (inner face, lateral aspect); (95), paramere (dorsal aspect); (96), female terminalia (lateral aspect);
Ac. campestris
: (97), male terminalia (lateral aspect); (98), paramere (inner face, lateral aspect); (99), female terminalia;
Ac. diminutae
: (100), male terminalia (lateral aspect); (101), paramere (inner face, lateral aspect); (102), female terminalia (lateral aspect). Scale = 0.2 mm.
FIGURES 103–110.
Acanthocasuarina muellerianae
sp. nov.
: (103), habitus, male (dorsal aspect); (104), habitus, female (dorsal aspect); (105), habitus male (lateral aspect); (106), habitus female (lateral aspect); (107), fore wing, male; (108), fore wing, female; (109), head, female (dorsal aspect); (110), nymphal exuvium (dorsal aspect). Scale = 0.5 mm.
Other material examined.
AUSTRALIA
, South
Australia
: from
Allocasuarina muelleriana
: 1 Ƥ Bullock Hill CP (
WINC
); 5 nymphs (1 slide), 16 3, 10 Ƥ Douglas Scrub (
WINC
); 1 Ƥ KI, Beyeria CP (
WINC
); 3 3, 2 Ƥ KI, Cape Gantheaume (
WINC
); 1 3, 1 Ƥ KI, Kelly Hill CP (
WINC
); 1 3, 1 Ƥ KI, Little Terror Ck (
WINC
); 2 3, 5 Ƥ KI, Parndana (
WINC
); 1 3, 4 Ƥ KI, Parndana CP (
WINC
); 2 Ƥ KI, Vivonne Bay (
WINC
); 3 3, 3 Ƥ KI,
10 km
W Vivonne Bay (
WINC
); 1 Ƥ KI, Seal Bay (
WINC
); from
Allocasuarina striata
: 2 3, 2 Ƥ KI, American River Rd (
WINC
); 1 3, 2 Ƥ KI, Pigs Head Corner (
WINC
); 1 3, 4 Ƥ KI, Willoughby Rd (
WINC
); from
Eucalyptus fasciculosa
: 1 3 Douglas Scrub (
WINC
).
Description.
Adult (
Figs 103–109
). Colour: Male: general colour pale with ochraceous to brown markings. Vertex pale with two pairs of small brown spots in vicinity of fovea; genal processes pale; antennal segments 1–2 brown; segment 3 ochraceous, darker apically; segments 4–10 dark brown to black; pronotum with a pair of dark brown submedial stripes; mesopraescutum with a pair of broad triangular ochraceous markings anteriorly; mesoscutum with two pairs of light orange-brown to brown longitudinal submedial stripes; mesoscutellum pale; wings clear; wing veins R+M+Cu, R, and proximal portion of C, Rs, M and Cu distinctly pale, all wing veins darker distally; abdominal tergites brown to dark brown; anterior face of proctiger brown to dark brown, pale laterally; subgenital plate and parameres ochraceous to orange-brown; proximal segment of aedeagus dark brown to black, distal segment ochraceous to orange-brown; legs with dorsal dark brown markings; tarsi dark brown to black. Female: as for male, except with distinct orange infuscation throughout; proctiger with proximal brown marking and brown infuscation in vicinity of circum-anal pore ring; subgenital plate with anterior brown markings; proctiger and subgenital plate with distinct internal black sclerotisation.
Structure: measurements and ratios as in Tables 1–5. Antennae short, 1.31–1.43 times width of head; genal processes moderate in length, conical, apices separated, divergent; anterior margin of vertex rounded from dorsal aspect, delineated from genal processes by prominent ridge; vertex with medial suture; pronotum with prominent anterior, medial node; thorax weakly arched, head distinctly wider than pronotum and mesoscutum, fore wings elongate with broadly rounded apex; Rs long, mostly straight except distally, terminating well short of wing apex; vein M1+2 terminating short of wing apex; cell m1 short, broadly triangular, m1 cell value 0.88–1.24; cell cu1 short triangular, cu1 cell value 1.27–1.84; radular areas thin, elongate in cells m1, m2 and cu1; male terminalia as in
Figs 127–128
; proctiger without lateral expansions; parameres thin elongate, strongly curved inward towards apex. Female terminalia as in
Fig 129
; proctiger short rectangular, with dorso-posterior margin steeply rounded from lateral aspect and an upturned blunt apical process; subgenital plate broad, elongate-triangular from lateral aspect.
Nymph (
Fig. 110
) (exuvium): Body light-brown with dark brown markings. Head with extensive submedial dark brown infuscation; meso-and metathoracic depressions dark brown with extensive dark brown markings anteriorly and posteriorly; fore and hind wing pads with dark brown infuscation; caudal plate with extensive dark brown marking submedially [thorax and abdomen with thin medial pale stripe]. Body elongate; anterior margin of head weakly pointed medially; dorsum of body with a distinct medial longitudinal ridge; caudal plate with hind margin narrowly rounded.
Etymology.
Named after the host plant,
Allocasuarina muelleriana
.
Distribution.
Recorded from southern Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island in South
Australia
(
Fig. 139
).
Host plant.
Recorded from
Allocasuarina muelleriana
(Miq.) L. Johnson
(slaty sheoak).
Allocasuarina muelleriana
occurs as a
0.5–3 m
shrub in scrub and heath, from Ceduna and Flinders Ranges, Southern Lofty Ranges [Fleurieu Peninsula] and Kangaroo Island, South
Australia
, east to Bendigo, Victoria (
Wilson & Johnson 1989
).
Comments.
See Comments under
Ac. acutivalvis
for diagnoses.