Pointed Leafhopper Austrimonus apicalis Fletcher & Dai, 2018
Fauna Portal species: 3815
Austrimonus apicalis female, lateral (HBI N1031-4; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2025)
Fauna Portal Image No. 11626Diagnosis
(after Fletcher & Dai 2018): This species is close to M. melaleucae from which it differs by the apical process of the aedeagal shafts being considerably longer and clearly bifurcate and the preapical tooth on the apical process of the paramere barely discernible. The colouring, particularly the line of pale ocellations along the anterior margin of the head, is also distinctive. The hind margin of the female pregenital sternite is similar in both species although the medial prominence is more pronounced in this species than in A. melaleucae. The fore tibial dorsal setation (4+4) in A. apicalis differs from that found in all other species of the genus (1+4).
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Queensland
- Western Australia
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