Genus Balyadimetopia Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Museums

Regional Maps

• Balyadimetopia 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 [86].

  Type species:

   Balyadimetopia frederi Löcker & Larivière, 2006 by original designation.

Introduction

Three species of this genus are known from the SW corner of Western Australia. One of these has also been found at Condobolin in the centre of New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, WA: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Diagnosis

Colour Vertex brown to black, lateral carinae yellow to brown; face yellow; mesonotum black; abdominal sternites dark brown to black, intersegmental membranes yellow. Morphology Body length. ♂ 3.9–5.5 mm, ♀ 4.7–6.9 mm. Head. Tip of head acutely angled in lateral view. Vertex and frons extremely broad (less developed in B. frederi). Lateral carinae of vertex slightly to moderately elevated. Lateral carinae of frons convex (evenly rounded), slightly elevated, lateral margins foliaceous, concealing base of antennae; median carina complete. Postclypeus with well developed median carina, lateral carinae strongly enlarged, foliaceous; anteclypeus with well developed median carina, not distinctly more elevated than that of postclypeus. Thorax. Pronotum with sinuate carinae. Concavity at costal border of forewing absent; Sc+R+M forming common stem; r–m1 distad of fork MA–MP; position of icu at CuP distad of apex of clavus; 10 apical cells. Hind tibia with six apical teeth in a row interrupted by a wide gap; 2nd tarsomere with nine apical teeth and seven platellae. Male genitalia. Phallotheca with a long spine arising left lateral on the phallotheca. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J., Löcker, B., Larivière, M.C. & Löcker, H. (2006). Illustrated Key to the Australian Genera of the Planthopper Tribe Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae: Fulgoromorpha) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/cixiid/gelastocephalini/gel00.htm

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]

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