Species Falcotoya aurinia Fennah, 1969

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• Falcotoya aurinia Fennah, R.G. 1969. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Pacific Insects Monographs 21: 1-116 [40].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 7660 ♂ (coll: C.R. Joyce, xi.1958), Ansé Vata, New Caledonia.

Introduction

This species, described from New Caledonia, is widespread across the coastal parts of northern Australia from Kununurra in Western Australia to the Hoskyn Islands in SE Queensland.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Length, ♂ 2.0 mm, tegmen 2.2 mm. Fuscous; all carinae and margins ochraceous; antennae dilute fuscous, post-tibal spur pale, almost ivory white. Tegmina milky hyaline, veins and margin very dilute fuscous. Wings hyaline with dilute fuscous veins. Vertex shorter sub-medially than broad at base, obtusely rounding into frons, as wide at apex as at base, lateral margins straight, apical margin truncate with submedian carinae prominent, Y-shaped carina distinct, submedian carinae uniting at base of frons, basal compartment of vertex wider at hind margin than greatest length and than median length, frons in middle line longer than wide at widest part, widest at middle, lateral margins shallowly convex, almost parallel, median carina forked at level of middle of eyes; clypeus at base a little wider than frons at apex, postclypeal disc a little shorter than broad at base, in profile shallowly convex, anteclypeus in profile moderately convex; entire clypeus in profile moderately convex; rostrum attaining mesotrochanter, apical segment about as long as subapical; antennae reaching to frontoclypeal suture, basal segment longer than broad at apex, 2nd segment longer than 1st; ocelli and blemmata distinct. Pronotum with disc shorter in middle line than broad at anterior margin, lateral carinae straight, not attaining hind margin. Total length of mesonotum greater than that of scutellum. Post-tibial spur with about 17 teeth. Anal segment very short, ring-like, lateroapical angles closely approaching one another, each produced ventrad in a laterally compressed sinuate spinose process. Pygofer long, posterior opening broader than long dorsoventrally, dorsolateral angles strongly produced caudad and inflected mesad at apex; diaphragm narrow in middle 1/3 with dorsal margin produced dorsocaudad in a narrowly rounded lobe, ventral margin of pygofer excavate, medioventral process absent. Aedeagus tubular, approximately S-shaped, horizontal in basal 1/3, then abruptly curved dorsad, and finally recurved ventrad, about 14 minute teeth in distal 1/3, distributed more or less irregularly, orifice dorsally at apex. Genital styles moderately long, each produced mesad at base in a curved subtriangular lobe, then moderately constricted and expanding distad to apex, apical margin truncate, outer apical angle rectangulate, a little rounded, inner apical angle acute (Fennah 1969).

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1969. Fulgoroidea (Homoptera) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Pacific Insects Monographs 21: 1-116 [40–41]

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