Species Chidaea kimbaensis Löcker and Holzinger, 2019

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• Chidaea kimbaensis Löcker, B. and Holzinger, W.E. 2019. Revision of the Australian planthopper genus Chidaea Emeljanov with a redescription of Cixius sidnicus Stål, 1859 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 4691(5): 401–443 [424].
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  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE026378 ♂ (coll: F.H. Uther Baker, 30.ix.1977), 45 km E of Kimba, South Australia.

 

Introduction

This species is known from drier areas of southern South Australia.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Colour. Head and pronotum dark brown to black with highly contrasting yellow or orange carinae. Mesonotum dark brown to black with orange carinae. Forewings whitish, veins light brown to whitish, concolorous with cells; tubercles dark brown in distinct contrast with light coloured veins. Pterostigma, crossveins and apical parts of veins slightly darker. Legs brown, dark near base, light near apex, body mid to dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.6 mm; ♀ 6.2–6.7 mm. Head: Vertex 2.3 x wider than long; median carina of vertex covering entire length of basal compartment of vertex; absent in apical compartment. Frons 1.4 x longer than wide; position of maximum width distinctly dorsad of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae of frons in facial view convex, rectilinear apically. Frontoclypeal suture strongly semicircular, bent upwards, median part just or just not reaching lower margin of antennal scape. Postclypeus with median carina well developed, evanescent near frontoclypeal suture. Anteclypeus with median carina moderately developed. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum rectangular. Mesonotum with median carina moderately developed, evanescent near posterior end; lateral carinae moderately to well developed. Forewing 3.6 x longer than wide; concavity at costal border absent; costal margin with about 10 tubercles; fork of ScP+RA and RP about same level as fork CuA1 and CuA2; tubercles of forewing dark, distinctly contrasted to paler coloured veins; ScP+RA apically bifid; RP trifid; additional subapical cell between branches of MP1 and MP2 absent; MP1+2 trifid; MP3+4 bifid; 11 apical cells; 6 subapical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 6 apical spines; 1st tarsomere with 9–10 apical teeth and 4–5 platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 9–10 apical teeth and 7–8 platellae. Male genitalia: Phallotheca near base with a bifurcate ventral process at the end of a very large ventral ridge; phallotheca left lateral with a long spine (a), almost straight in ventral view, slightly curved in lateral view; right lateral with a short spine (b), almost straight in ventral view, strongly curved in lateral view; phallotheca forming a well sclerotised ridge right lateral (Löcker and Holzinger 2019)

 

ID Keys

Löcker and Holzinger 2019: 407–408

 

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B. and Holzinger, W.E. 2019. Revision of the Australian planthopper genus Chidaea Emeljanov with a redescription of Cixius sidnicus Stål, 1859 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 4691(5): 401–443 [424]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839	13-Dec-2019	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher