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 campestris
Taylor
,
sp. nov.
Figs 75–83
,
97–99
,
138
; Tables 1–8
Types
.
AUSTRALIA
, Western
Australia
:
Holotype
: 13 (slide)
15 km
S Wialki,
30°37.182’S
118°08.751’E
, G.S. Taylor & J.T. Jennings,
6.xii.2008
,
Allocasuarina campestris
, ABCL 2008 656 (WAMA).
Paratypes
:
8 3, 10
Ƥ (slide), 2 nymphs (1 slide), 2 3, 4 Ƥ (dried), 77 3, 121 Ƥ, same data as
holotype
(ANIC, WAMA, WINC).
Other material examined.
AUSTRALIA
, Western
Australia
:
from
Allocasuarina campestris
:
8 3 25
Ƥ
45 km
E Geraldton (
WINC
);
11 3, 36
Ƥ Indarra Spring NR (
WINC
); 29 3, 31 Ƥ Kalbarri NP (
WINC
); 2 3, 1 Ƥ
20 km
E Kondinin (
WINC
); 1 nymph (dried),
5 3, 12
Ƥ
10 km
SSW Mukinbudin (
WINC
); 1 3, 5 Ƥ, 1 nymph
13 km
N Northampton (
WINC
); 1 Ƥ
30 km
WNW Northampton (
WINC
); 1 3, 1 Ƥ
13 km
S Perenjori (
WINC
); 28 3, 41 Ƥ Wilroy NR (
WINC
);
9 3, 10
Ƥ
35 km
N Wubin (
WINC
).
Description.
Adult (
Figs 75–81
). Colour: Male: general colour ochraceous to orange-brown with brown to black markings. Vertex with a pair of diffuse broad brown markings; genal processes dark brown to black; antennal segments 1–2 dark brown to black; segment 3 brown, darker apically; segments 4–10 dark brown to black; pronotum pale with a pair of broad dark brown submedial markings; mesopraescutum with a pair of broad, suffuse, submedial dark brown markings; mesoscutum with two pairs of brown longitudinal submedial stripes, lateral-most thinner and paler; mesoscutellum orange; wings clear; wing vein R+M+Cu pale; legs with dorsal dark brown markings; fore and mid-tarsi dark brown to black, hind basitarsi ochraceous, distal segment of hind tarsi dark brown to black; abdominal tergites brown to dark brown; anterior face of proctiger brown; subgenital plate pale with brown infuscation medially and basally; parameres pale with black apices; proximal segment of aedeagus dark brown to black, distal segment ochraceous. Female: As for male, except generally slightly paler; markings on vertex brown, genal processes ochraceous to brown, pronotum, mesopraescutum and mesoscutum pale brown to brown; proctiger with brown infuscation medio-dorsally and apex dark brown; subgenital plate with brown infuscation and brown apex.
Structure: measurements and ratios as in Tables 1–5. Antennae short, 1.32–1.48 times width of head; genal processes elongate, conical, separated at base and becoming increasingly divergent; anterior margin of vertex rounded from dorsal aspect, delineated from genal processes by prominent ridge; vertex with prominent 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 short of wing apex; vein M distinctly sinuate; vein M1+2 terminating well short of wing apex; cell m1 short, broadly triangular, m1 cell value 0.87–1.14; cell cu1 short triangular, cu1 cell value 1.39–2.19; radular areas thin, elongate in cells m1, m2 and cu1; male terminalia as in
Figs 97–98
; proctiger without lateral expansions; parameres thin elongate, strongly curved inward towards apex. Female terminalia as in
Fig. 99
; proctiger short with dorso-posterior margin smoothly rounded from lateral aspect and a barely upturned blunt apical process; subgenital plate broad, triangular from lateral aspect.
Nymph (
Figs 82–83
): Measurements and ratios as in
Tables 6–7
. Body light-brown with dark brown markings. Eyes reddish brown; head with submedial brown spots; meso-and metathoracic depressions dark brown to black with irregular dark brown markings anteriorly and posteriorly; caudal plate with dark brown infuscation submedially and delineating margins of abdominal tergites. 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 campestris
.
Distribution.
Recorded from inland Western
Australia
from Kalbarri and Geraldton and throughout the inland “wheat-belt” region east to Wialki and Mukinbudin, and south to Kondinin in south-western Western
Australia
(
Fig. 138
).
Host plant.
Recorded from
Allocasuarina campestris
(Diels) L.Johnson.
Allocasuarina campestris
occurs as a dense, erect,
1–3 m
shrub on sand-plain and lateritic soils, widespread in the wheat-belt of Western
Australia
from N of the Murchison River to S of Ravensthorpe and E of Esperance (
Wilson & Johnson 1989
).
Comments.
See Comments under
Ac. acutivalvis
for diagnoses.