Species Balyadimetopia frederi Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Balyadimetopia frederi Löcker & Larivière

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Balyadimetopia frederi 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 data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: K.R. Norris, 30.xi.1936), Pemberton, Western Australia.

Introduction

A species with a disjunct distribution, with most specimens coming from the SW coastal fringe of Western Australia but a single female is known from Condobolin in the centre of New South Wales. The name is derived from Manfred
Löcker, a friend of the first author.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour Pronotum yellow; legs straw coloured; forewing hyaline yellow, veins and tubercles concolorous with cells. Morphology Body length. ♂ 3.9–5.5 mm; ♀ 4.7–6.1 mm. Head. Vertex 0.8–1.0× as long as wide, produced before eyes by 1/4–1/2 of an eye length; apex broadly rounded; caudal border u-shaped; median carina incomplete, more than 3/4 as long as vertex. Frons 1.2–1.3× longer than wide; position of maximum width distinctly ventrad of centre of frontoclypeal suture. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, median part at least reaching lower margin of antennal scape. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum right or acutely angled. Forewing less than 3× longer than wide; costa with 23–29 tubercles; fork of Sc+R basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2. Hind leg: tibia with 1–3 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 1st tarsomere with 8–11 apical teeth and 3–6 platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 7–9 apical teeth and 5–7 platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long, basally straight (sometimes slightly curved) spine arising left laterally above midlength; flagellum unarmed.
Remarks Most specimens have the 1st tarsomere with nine apical teeth and four platellae and the 2nd tarsomere with nine apical teeth and seven 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 [86]

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