Species Andes turrondi Löcker, 2007

Andes turrondi Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

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Regional Maps

• Andes turrondi 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 [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: Upton & Barrett, 25.x.1972), 12 mi NNW of Mt Cahill, Northern Territory [12.46S 132.39E].

Introduction

This is the only species of Andes not recorded from Queensland. It was described from specimens collected in the Northern Territory, both in Kakadu National Park and in the suburbs of Darwin.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex mid brown with two longitudinal, white stripes; frons mid to dark brown, lateral carinae paler, without dots; pronotum light brown; mesonotum light to mid brown; legs light brown; forewing hyaline, colourless, with transverse band 1 wide, mid to dark brown, extending to immediately basad of pterostigma, covering fork CuA1+CuA2 and terminating at CuP, forewing with transverse band 2 narrow, mid to dark brown, around basal cell reaching into clavus, forewing with mid or dark brown marks scattered across wing, apical half of wing with light brown patches; veins concolorous with cells, tubercles mid brown, pterostigma light brown; abdominal sternites light or mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.7-5.5 mm, ♀ 5.7-6.7 mm. Head: Vertex 0.5-0.8 x as long as wide. In lateral view, vertex and frons forming curve, head at junction of vertex and frons no more than very slightly produced. Frons 2.5-3.8 x longer than wide; median carina incomplete, covering about 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 surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Forewing 2.4-2.6 x longer than wide; CuA1+CuA2 forking 1/5-1/6 away from apex of clavus; costa with 13-16 tubercles Hind leg: tibia with 3-5 small to medium sized lateral spines; 1st tarsomere with 8 apical teeth; 2nd tarsomere with 8 apical teeth and 1-4 very fine setae underneath row of apical teeth. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: phallotheca with long, very wide cucullus, distinctly curved in left lateral view, lower rim of cucullus conspicuously serrated; flagellum unarmed; virga elongated, sinuate.
Remarks. The proportions and shape of the cucullus in combination with the conspicuously serrated rim of the cucullus are diagnostic for this species. (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 [50]

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