Species Andes moaensis Löcker, 2007
Compiler and date details
3 August 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Andes moaensis Löcker, B. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Holzinger, W.E. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the Australian Andini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with a description of five new species. Zootaxa 1475: 43-59 [49].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: S.F. McEvey, 1.ii.1980, swept, rainforest), Moa Island, North Queensland.
Introduction
Described from three specimens from far North Queensland, one of which was swept from rainforest on Palm Island.
Distribution
States
Queensland
IBRA
Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: phloem feeder.
Extra Ecological Information
Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.
Diagnosis
Colour. Vertex mid or dark brown with two longitudinal, white stripes; frons mid brown, lateral carinae paler, with distinct dark brown dots; pronotum and mesonotum light to mid brown; legs light brown; forewing hyaline, colourless, with transverse band 1 sometimes weakly developed, brown, extending to basad of pterostigma, covering fork CuA1+CuA2 and terminating at CuP, forewing with transverse band 2 sometimes weakly developed, narrow, brown, around basal cell reaching into clavus, forewing sometimes with brown marks scattered across wing, veins concolorous with cells, tubercles mid brown, pterostigma light brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.4-5.5 mm, ♀ 6.5 mm. Head: Vertex 0.5-0.6 x as long as wide. In lateral view, vertex and frons forming curve, head at junction of vertex and frons not produced. Frons 2.7-2.9 x longer than wide; median carina incomplete, covering 1/3 to 1/2 of length of frons; lateral carinae not extending laterally, not concealing base of antennae; median ocellus separated from frontoclypeal suture by less than its own diameter. Rostrum slightly or distinctly surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Forewing 2.6-2.7 x longer than wide; CuA1+CuA2 forking 1/3 away from apex of clavus; costa with 14-18 tubercles. Hind leg: tibia with 3 small to medium sized lateral spines; 1st tarsomere with 8 apical teeth; 2nd tarsomere with 8 apical teeth and 3 very fine setae underneath row of apical teeth. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: phallotheca with long, very slender cucullus, rim of cucullus smooth; phallotheca left lateral with a long, flattened ridge; flagellum unarmed; virga elongated, sinuate.
Remarks. Andes moaensis can be distinguished from all other Australian Andini by the combination of the frons with distinct dark brown dots and the phallotheca with a long flattened ridge. (Löcker et al. 2007)
ID Keys
Löcker et al. 2007: 45
Diagnosis References
Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Holzinger, W.E. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the Australian Andini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with a description of five new species. Zootaxa 1475: 43-59 [49]
History of changes
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