Species Carolus crispus Kirkaldy, 1906

Carolus crispus Kirkaldy

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Carolus crispus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [401].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll: Koebele, i.1905), Sydney, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation 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 [93].

Introduction

Known from the male lectotype, this species should be better represented in collections because it was described originally from Sydney.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology Body length. ♂ 6.6 mm. Head. Vertex 1.1× as long as wide. Frons 1.1–1.5× longer than wide; median carina incomplete, 1/2–3/4 as long as frons. Anteclypeus with well developed median carina. Thorax. Costa with 13–16 tubercles; Sc+R+M forming common stem; fork of Sc+R slightly basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP at same level as apex of clavus; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 0–1 small lateral spine (without large lateral spines); 2nd tarsomere with seven apical teeth and five platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a pair of very small spines ventrally near base, one short strongly curved spine left lateral about midlength, one long s-shaped spine right lateral near apex, and two very short spines ventrally also 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 [93]

General 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 [93]

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