Species Balyadimetopia marci Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Balyadimetopia marci Löcker & Larivière

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Balyadimetopia marci 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 [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123599 ♂ (coll: 20-27.xi.1980, malaise trap (A. Postle); originally in QDPI), Yarragil, 4P catchment via Dwellingup, Western Australia.

Introduction

This species is based on a single male specimen from near Dwellingup in Western Australia. It was named in honour of the first author’s friend Markus Proksch.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour Pronotum black, carinae and hind border yellow; legs yellow; forewing hyaline mid brown except for white costal cell and whitish yellow pterostigma and adjacent cell, veins and tubercles concolorous with cells. Morphology Body length. ♂ 5.3 mm. Head. Vertex 0.4× as long as wide, produced before eyes by less than 1/4 of an eye length; apex broadly truncate; caudal border widely v-shaped; median carina incomplete, more than 3/4 as long as vertex. Frons less than 1.1× longer than wide; position of maximum width around centre of frontoclypeal suture. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, median part reaching just below lower margin of antennal scape. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide; costa with 19–22 tubercles; fork of Sc+R distad of or at same level as fork of CuA1+CuA2. Hind leg: tibia without lateral spines; 1st tarsomere with 11 apical teeth and seven platellae; 2nd tarsomere with nine apical teeth and seven platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long, moderately curved spine left laterally and a large ventral ridge forming hook-like process below midlength; flagellum unarmed.

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 [88]

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