Species Carolus stiriae Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Carolus stiriae Löcker & Larivière

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

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Regional Maps

• Carolus stiriae 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 T123594 ♂ (coll: 19-22.xi.1985, sweeping; originally from QDPI), Lake Broadwater, via Dalby, Queensland.

Introduction

A small brown species found near Brisbane, Queensland, and near Port Macquarie in New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology Body length. ♂ 6.6 mm, ♀ 7.22–7.61 mm. Head. Vertex 0.9× as long as wide. Frons 1.5–1.9× longer than wide; median carina incomplete, 1/2–3/4 as long as frons. Anteclypeus lacking carinae. Thorax. Costa with 14–16 tubercles; Sc+R+M forming very short common stem; fork of Sc+R at same level as fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP at same level as apex of clavus; 11 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 3–4 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 2nd tarsomere with (9–) 10–11 apical teeth and (7–) 8–9 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 straight spine dorsally above midlength and one long straight spine ventrally above midlength; 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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