Species Orosius magareyi Fletcher & Löcker, 2016

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• Orosius magareyi Fletcher, M.J., Löcker, H., Mitchell, A. & Gopurenko, D. 2016. A revision of the genus Orosius Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) based on male genitalia and DNA barcoding. Austral Entomology [Date published Early version published online 1/9/2016: Paper version in 2017 on Vol. 56(2): 198–217] [16].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE030135 ♂ (coll: 17–29.ix.2004, P. Magarey, sticky trap 3.3.15.1.3), Loxton, South Australia.

 

Introduction

This species has only been collected using sticky traps in vineyards in the Riverland region of South Australia. It is quite distinctive in male genitalia and in CO1 sequence data. The species was named in honour of Peter Magarey, Plant Pathologist of Loxton, South Australia who collected the type series as well as the type series of O. pallidus as part of a study of phytoplasma disease of grapevines.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species has the most distinctive aedeagus of any of the known species of the genus with the shafts strongly incurved in ventral view to form a horseshoe shape (Fletcher et al. 2016).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher et al. 2016: 5

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J., Löcker, H., Mitchell, A. & Gopurenko, D. 2016. A revision of the genus Orosius Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) based on male genitalia and DNA barcoding. Austral Entomology [Date published Early version published online 1/9/2016: Paper version in 2017 on Vol. 56(2): 198–217] [16–17]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	03-Nov-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
	Opsiini Emeljanov, 1962	09-Sep-2016	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher