Bajauana austrina Kirkaldy 1907
Creators: name: Löcker, Birgit
name: Fletcher, Murray J.
name: Gurr, Geoff M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Bajauana
Bajauana austrina

description: Bajauana austrina (Kirkaldy, 1907)
(Figs 1, 11)
Australoma austrina Kirkaldy, 1907: 114, Pl. VIII, Figs 16–18.
Bajauana austrina (Kirkaldy), Fennah, 1980: 239.
Type. Lectotype 3 (designated here, examined), AUSTRALIA, Qld: Kuranda, viii.1904 (BPBM).
Notes: One male type specimen from Kuranda, Queensland has been examined. It is unclear from the original description whether further type material exists - though it is unlikely because a single measurement instead of a range is given for the body length by Kirkaldy (1907). Nevertheless, the specimen is recognised as a syntype because of the possibility of additional type specimens and is hereby designated as lectotype to provide diagnostic reference for the species.
Other material examined. AUSTRALIA, Qld: 1 3, Mossman Gorge, 21.iv.1967 (D.H. Colless) (ANIC); 2 Ƥ, same data, 23.iv.1967 (ANIC); 2 3, Windsor Tableland via Mt Carbine, 26.xii.1983 – 24.i.1984 (Storey & Halfpapp) (QDPI); 3 3, 1 Ƥ, same data, malaise trap, 10.xi.–26.xii.1983 (Storey & Titmarsh) (QDPI); 1 Ƥ, same data, 4.–29.xii.1980 (QDPI); 1 3, Kuranda Range State Forest, 7–8 m, Black Mtn Road, 20.iv.1967 (D.H. Colless) (ANIC); 1 Ƥ, Kuranda State Forest, 28.1 km N of Kuranda, 16º40’25”S 145º30’08”E, 28.iv.1998 (G. Cassis) (AMS).
Colour. Head yellow except for dark brown apex of rostrum. Pro- and mesonotum yellow, carinae concolorous or slightly paler. Forewings hyaline yellowish except for mid brown mark near apex of clavus; veins and tubercles yellow; pterostigma yellow except for two mid brown marks. Abdominal sternites yellow, sometimes mid brown. Legs yellow.
Morphology. Body length: 3 4.9–5.1 mm; Ƥ 4.9–5.5 mm.
Head: Vertex 1.4–1.7 times wider than long; with or without indistinct median carina. Frons 1.0–1.2 times longer than wide. Median carina of frons complete, rarely incomplete.
Thorax: Forewing 2.5–2,7 times longer than wide; with about 21–24 tubercles on costa; position of crossvein R-M basad or at same level as fork MA-MP. Hind leg: 2nd tarsomere with 8 (rarely 7) apical teeth and three very fine setae.
Male genitalia: Anal tube as in Figs 11 C, D. Genital styles as in Figs 11 E, F. Ventromedian process of pygofer triangular as in Fig. 11 E. Aedeagus as in Figs 11 A, B. Phallotheca left lateral with two more or less straight spines (a, b) of different length, right lateral with slightly curved, short spine (c) and long, more or less straight spine. (d). Flagellum with several pointed tips.
Remarks. Bajauana austrina has been recorded from Australia and Indonesia (Buru Island) and therefore represents one of two species within the Australian Eucarpiini that are not endemic to Australia. Bajauana austrina can be distinguished from B. acuminata by the characters given in the key.
description: Published as part of Löcker, Birgit, Fletcher, Murray J. & Gurr, Geoff M., 2010, Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species, pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 2425 on pages 4-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.194600