Species Candicarina geroldi Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Candicarina geroldi Löcker & Larivière

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Candicarina geroldi 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 [92].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: K. Plumb, 5.viii.1964), B.M.R. camp, SW of Bedford Downs, nr Lansdowne Homestead, Kimberley, Western Australia.

Introduction

A species of the northern inland of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Only two specimens, both male, have been found. The species is named in honour of the first author’s friend Gerold Eder.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology Body length. ♂ 4.9 mm. Head. Median carina of vertex incomplete, 1/4–1/2 as long as vertex. Median carina of frons incomplete, ~1/4 as long as frons; lateral carinae s-shaped. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum more or less rectangular. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide; costa with 0–5 tubercles; position of icu at CuP distad of apex of clavus; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 1–2 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 1st tarsomere with seven apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with seven apical teeth and five platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long, moderately curved spine arising ventrally above midlength; flagellum with three spines. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2006: 90

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 [92]

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