Species Rhigedanus maculipennis Emeljanov, 2000

Rhigedanus maculipennis Emeljanov, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Insitute.

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• Rhigedanus maculipennis Emeljanov, A.F. 2000. New genera of the family Cixiidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) from Australia and neighbouring Territories. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 79(1): 12-34 [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll.: 3.x.1977, F.H. Uther Baker, ex J.W. Evans collection, donated 1986), 70 km E of Balladonia, Western Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Emeljanov, A.F. 2000. New genera of the Family Cixiidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) from Australia and neighboring Territories. [translation]. Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 80(3): 251-270 [269].

Introduction

A large (up to 7.8mm) dark brown species which can only be differentiated from the type species by examination of the male genitalia.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Hampton (HAM), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex mid to dark brown, lateral carinae basally light brown apically dark brown, transverse carina yellow; frons dark brown with black area near the frontoclypeal suture, lateral carinae mid brown; clypeus dark brown, median carina paler; pronotum mid to dark brown; mesonotum dark brown to black; legs light to dark brown; forewing hyaline white to yellowish with brown marks, veins and tubercles dark brown; abdominal sternites mid to dark brown to black, intersegmental membranes yellow. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 6.9–7.8 mm. Head. Vertex produced before eyes by more than 1× eye length; lateral carinae moderately to strongly elevated. Frons 1.9–2.3× longer than wide. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, median part not or just reaching lower margin of antennal scape; anteclypeus with well developed median carina. Thorax. Costa without tubercles; fork of Sc+R distad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; 9–11 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with two large lateral spines (unequal in length); 1st tarsomere with 6–7 apical teeth; 2nd tarsomere with 14–19 apical teeth and 12–17 platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long (about same length as flagellum), almost straight spine arising left laterally near apex; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 81)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [82]

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