Genus Aubirestus Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aubirestus Löcker, B. & Larivière, M.-C. in 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 [84].

  Type species:

   Aubirestus semicirculatus Löcker & Larivère, 2006 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus is monotypic and the single species is only known from Greenly Island off the coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. The name is derived from the first two letters of each word of the Australian Biological Resources Study, which provided funding for the revision of the Australian Cixiidae. (Löcker et al. 2006)

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB)

Diagnosis

Morphology. Head. Vertex 0.8× as long as wide, produced before eyes by 1/4–1/2 of an eye length; apex broadly rounded; caudal border widely u-shaped; lateral carinae strongly elevated; median carina 1/2–3/4 as long as vertex. Frons 1.1–1.5× as long as wide, position of maximum width around centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae convex (although rectilinear apically), slightly elevated, lateral margins foliaceous, concealing base of antennae; median carina complete. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, median part just reaching lower margin of antennal scape; postclypeus with well developed lateral carinae and median carina; anteclypeus with weakly developed median carina. Thorax. Pronotum with sinuate to arched carinae; hind margin rectangular. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide; costa with 15–18 tubercles; concavity at costal border absent; Sc+R+M forming common stem; fork of Sc+R at same level as fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 distad of fork of MA–MP; position of icu at CuP basad of apex of clavus. Hind leg: tibia with 2–3 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); six apical teeth in a row interrupted by a wide gap; 1st tarsomere with seven apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 10 apical teeth and eight platellae. (Löcker et al. 2006)

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 [84]

General 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 [84]

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