Species Aka hardyi Muir, 1931

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aka hardyi Muir, F. 1931. Descriptions and records of Fulgoroidea from Australia and the South Pacific Islands. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(2): 63-83 [64].

  Type data:

   Neotype ASCU ASCTHE016788 ♂ (coll: J.W. Evans, 22.ix1935), Mt Wellington, Tasmania
  Comment: Muir (1931) based this species on one male from Mount Wellington, 30.ix.1917 collected by G.H. Hardy and deposited in AM. Löcker (2015) was unable to locate the male holotype in AM nor in other collections known to have Muir types (BMNH, BPBM) and declared it to be lost. She redescribed the species from nine specimens matching the original description and designated a topotypic specimen from among these to be the neotype.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Löcker, B. 2015. Revision of the Australian species of Aka White, 1879 (Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of a new genus. Zootaxa 3956(2): 199–223 [211].

 

Introduction

A short stubby species which appears to be associated with Nothofagus forests in SE Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

 

Diagnosis

Colour. Dark brown, the carinae slightly lighter. Tegmina light brown, veins slightly darker, Sc and R more so; a few darker marks on costa, over the apical veins and in the middle of the corium; a dark mark on margin beyond clavus. Legs, thoracic pleura, the pygofer and genital styles light. Morphology. Vertex shorter than in A. tasmani; the areolets reaching nearly to the base; the medio-lateral carinae of mesonotum very indistinct. The rugose surface of head, nota and tegmina similar to A. tasmani. The apex of the anal segment is round, not produced, without any spines; the genital styles are more rounded at the apex. Length ♂ 3.8 mm; tegmen 3.3 mm. (Muir 1931)

This species can be distinguished from all other Australian Aka by the following combination of characters: male anal tube apically rounded, forming only one lobe; aedeagus with only 3 spines which are more or less equal in length (Löcker 2015).

 

ID Keys

Löcker 2015: 208

 

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B. 2015. Revision of the Australian species of Aka White, 1879 (Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of a new genus. Zootaxa 3956(2): 199–223 [212]

Muir, F. 1931. Descriptions and records of Fulgoroidea from Australia and the South Pacific Islands. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(2): 63-83 [64]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Jul-2015	CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839	10-Jul-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
13-Oct-2010		13-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)