New species of the lace bug genus Lasiacantha Stål (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Western Australia

Abstract

Five new species of the lace bug genus Lasiacantha are described herein, L. adamah n. sp., L. caneriverensis n. sp., L. meedo n. sp., L. ningaloo n. sp. and L. spinosa n. sp., bringing the current number of Australian Lasiacantha species to 24. All new species of Lasiacantha are from the Carnarvon and Pilbara bioregions of Western Australia, where previously only one species was known. Further, half the Australian Lasiacantha species now known are from Western Australia. One of the new species, L. spinosa, has also been found in inland southern Queensland. This work also contains new collection and host plant records for L. pilbara Cassis and Symonds, corrections to the larval morphology of L. aureolus Cassis and Symonds and L. luritja Cassis and Symonds, a revised key to all representatives of Australian Lasiacantha, and a discussion of Lasiacantha host associations. Also provided are photos and mapped distributions of the new species and some habitat and host plant photos.

First records of the lace bug genus Lasiacantha Stål, 1873 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Tingidae) from Japan

“…Lasiacantha is distinguished from other tingid genera by the following characteristics: dorsum brown, patchy; head with five long spines; pronotum tricarinate; hood semiglobose or conical; paranotum rounded throughout its length, semicircular; outer margin of paranotum with a single row of setiferous tubercles; hemelytron widest in middle part; anterior margin of hemelytron with a single row of setiferous tubercles; and costal area broad, more than 0.5 times as wide as discoidal area (cf. Symonds and Cassis 2013). The specimens recorded below match these diagnostic characteristics well (Figs.…”

“…The lace bug genus Lasiacantha Stål, 1873 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Tingidae, Tinginae, Tingini) comprises 59 species from the Oriental Region (Stål 1873; Drake and Ruhoff 1965;Štusák 1971, 1978Golub 1977Golub , 1988Hoberlandt 1977;Linnavuori 1977;Vásárhelyi 1977;Duarte Rodrigues 1981, 1982, 1987a, 1987b, 1990Péricart 1982;Nonnaizab 1985;Göllner-Scheiding 2005;Livingstone and Jeyanthibai 2005;Guilbert 2007;Cassis and Symonds 2011;Symonds and Cassis 2013). In East Asia, five species, namely L. altimitrata (Takeya, 1933), L. cuneata (Distant, 1909, L. gracilis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1830), L. haplophylli Golub, 1977, andL.…”

Nineteen New Genera and 82 New Species of Cremnorrhinina from Australia, Including Analyses of Host Relationships and Distributions (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Cremnorrhinini)

“…By far the largest numbers of taxa are associated with the Scrophulariaceae and particularly with the speciose genus Eremophila; a lesser number of taxa are known from Myoporum, placed in its own family (Chinnock, 2007) by some authors, but included in Scrophulariaceae in modern phylogenetically based classifications (Oxelman et al, 2005). In addition to members of the Cremnorrhinina, lesser numbers of other still-undescribed Australian Phylinae are associated with Eremophila as are large numbers of Tingidae species placed in multiple genera (Cassis andSymonds, 2008, 2011;Symonds and Cassis, 2013). A broad range of chenopodiaceous genera serve as hosts for the monophyletic group Halophylus.…”