Species Innobindus multimaculatus Jacobi, 1928

Innobindus multimaculatus Jacobi, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Innobindus multimaculatus Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [31].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHRM ♂, Malanda, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) NHRM 2♀, Malanda, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the genus Innobindus Jacobi (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of six new species and comments on other Australian Brixiini genera. Australian Journal of Entomology 46: 45-55 [54].

Introduction

A reasonably common species in the rainforest of the wet tropics of Queensland. It has been collected at light, in flight intercept traps and by pyrethrum knockdown.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body light brown, mesonotum, disc of frons and vertex slightly darker; forewing hyaline, colourless, with scattered brown marks, pterostigma and veins light brown, crossveins darker, tubercles concolorous with veins; legs light brown; abdominal sternites light to mid-brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.8–6.4 mm, ♀ 5.7–6.9 mm. Head: Vertex 0.5–0.8× as long as wide. Frons 1.7–2.1× longer than wide. Thorax: Forewing 2.8–3.1× longer than wide; fork of Pcu+A1 distad of centre of clavus or central within clavus; costa with 24–33 tubercles. Hind leg: tibia with 0–4 very small lateral spines. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca left lateral with very long, curved spine; ventral with large, evenly curved, fringed, sheet-like ridge. Flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et al. 2007)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2007: 47

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the genus Innobindus Jacobi (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of six new species and comments on other Australian Brixiini genera. Australian Journal of Entomology 46: 45-55 [54]

General References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the genus Innobindus Jacobi (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of six new species and comments on other Australian Brixiini genera. Australian Journal of Entomology 46: 45-55 [54]

History of changes