Species Nesochlamys pandikros Löcker, 2010

Nesochlamys pandikros Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nesochlamys pandikros Löcker, B. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa 2425: 1-31 [24].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T.156368 ♂ (coll: malaise trap, ix–x.1982, S. Montague), Bellenden Ker Range, Queensland, Cable Tower 5, 500 m[etres].

Introduction

This is a beautifully marked species based on two males from Mt Bellenden Ker, Queensland.

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. Vertex light brown near basal emargination, mid brown apically. Face mid brown, carinae concolorous, except for pale lateral carinae of frons. Pronotum light brown, mesonotum mid to dark brown. Forewings hyaline colourless with numerous light brown patches; veins and tubercles concolorous with cells; apical parts of veins near pterostigma darkened; pterostigma light brown. Legs light brown, femora slightly darker. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 3.3 mm. Head: Vertex 0.5 times as wide as long; with median carina covering 1/2–3/4 of length of vertex. Frons 1.5–1.6 times longer than wide. Rostrum just reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Forewing 3.7 times longer than wide; with 13 tubercles on costa; Sc+R forking basad of fork CuA1+CuA2; position of crossvein R-M basad of fork MA-MP; RP apically bifid; 8–9 apical cells. Hind leg: 1st and 2nd tarsomere with 6 apical teeth. Male genitalia: Genital styles apically with numerous fine setae. Ventromedian process of pygofer trapezoid. Aedeagus: phallotheca left laterally with broad, well sclerotised, bifurcated spine; ventrally with less sclerotised, bifurcated spine with one short and one very long, slender branch. Flagellum without spines.
Remarks. This species differs from all other Australian species of Nesochlamys by the presence of two
bifurcated spines on the aedeagus. (Löcker et.al. 2010)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2010: 20)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa (2425): 1-31 [24]

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