Species Carolus carinatus Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Carolus carinatus Löcker & Larivière

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

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Regional Maps

• Carolus carinatus 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 [94].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123595 ♂ (coll: 24-26.ix.1985, sweeping open forest; originally from QDPI), Dunwich area, Stradbroke Island, Queensland.

Introduction

A brown species distributed from Stradbroke Island, Queensland, to the central coast of New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology Body length. ♂ 6.3 mm, ♀ 5.56–7.39 mm. Head. Vertex 0.9× as long as wide. Frons 1.1–1.5× longer than wide; median carina incomplete, more than 5/6 as long as frons. Anteclypeus with well developed median carina. Thorax. Costa with 14–15 tubercles; Sc+R+M forming short common stem; fork of Sc+R basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP distad of or at same level as apex of clavus; 10–11 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with two small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 2nd tarsomere with nine apical teeth and seven platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a pair of very small spines ventrally near base, one long moderately curved spine left lateral about midlength, one long strongly curved spine right lateral above midlength and very long spine right lateral near apex; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2006: 92

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 [94]

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