Species Balyadimetopia krahalla Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Balyadimetopia krahalla Löcker & Larivière, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Balyadimetopia krahalla 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 ASCU ♂ (coll: J.D. Majer, x.1987, ex jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata), pyrethrin knockdown), Karragullen, Western Australia.

Introduction

This species has been collected from Eucalyptus foliage in the Swan Valley region of Western Australia. The name is derived from the names of the first author’s friends Beate Kraker and Manfred Hall.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus marginata Sm. [MYRTACEAE] Jarrah).

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour Apical portion of anteclypeus black, lateral sides of head partly black; pronotum yellow, central area black, carinae yellow; legs yellow to dark brown; forewing hyaline yellow, veins yellow, tubercles dark brown. Morphology Body length. ♂ 5.3–5.4 mm; ♀ 6.2–6.9 mm. Head. Vertex 0.6× as long as wide, produced before eyes by 1/4–1/2 of an eye length; apex broadly pointed; caudal border u-shaped; median carina incomplete, ~3/4 as long as vertex. Frons less than 1.1× longer than wide; position of maximum width distinctly ventrad of centre of frontoclypeal suture. The latter semicircular, median part reaching at least lower margin of antennal scape. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum right or obtusely angled. Forewing 3.0–3.5× longer than wide; costa with ~13 tubercles; fork of Sc+R basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2. Hind leg: tibia with 1–2 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 1st tarsomere with 8–10 apical teeth and 3–5 platellae; 2nd tarsomere with nine apical teeth and seven platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long spine, moderately curved basally, arising left laterally above midlength; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2006: 86

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]

History of changes