Species Chidaea punctata Löcker and Holzinger, 2019

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• Chidaea punctata 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 [429].
  Zoobank Registration Number:693650D8-1AD0-4749-A5EA-97E7087676AF

  Type data:

   Holotype UQIC T244828 ♂ (coll, J. Skevington, 16.ix.1997, hilltopping, 170m), Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane, Queensland [27º 29’S, 152º 57’E].

 

Introduction

This species has an oblique line of distinctive dark smudges across each forewing. It is only known from SE Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Colour. Head and pronotum mid or dark brown with distinctly contrasting pale carinae. Mesonotum mid or dark brown laterally, central area between carinae often much paler; carinae pale, often concolorous with central area. Forewings light brown with 3 distinct mid to dark brown spots on each wing (near y-fork in claval area, near CuA1 and CuA2 fork and on MP basad of MP1+2 and MP3+4 fork) with all 6 spots together forming a distinct shaped pattern; forewing with darker patches near crossveins; forewing veins varying in colour from light to mid or dark brown, tubercles concolorous with veins; pterostigma light brown. Body and legs light, mid or dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.7–5.9 mm; ♀, 6.4–7.9 mm. Head: Vertex 2.0–2.6 x wider than long; median carina of vertex covering almost entire length of basal compartment of vertex; absent or reduced to a very short section in basal compartment. Frons 1.0–1.2 x longer than wide; position of maximum width more or less around centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae of frons in facial view slightly s-shaped, almost straight apically. Frontoclypeal suture strongly semicircular, bent upwards, median part reaching at least lower margin of antennal scape. Postclypeus with median carina well developed. Anteclypeus with median carina well developed. Rostrum just not reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Median carina of pronotum extremely well developed. Hind margin of pronotum obtuse. Mesonotum with median carina evanescent; lateral carinae weakly developed. Forewing 3.2 x longer than wide; concavity at costal border weakly developed; costal margin with 1–4 indistinct tubercles; fork of ScP+RA and RP slightly basad of or at same level as fork CuA1 and CuA2; tubercles of forewing dark, only slightly darker than veins; ScP+RA apically bifid; RP trifid; additional subapical cell between branches of MP1 and MP2 absent; MP1+2 and MP3+4 trifid; 12 apical cells; 6 subapical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 6 apical spines; 1st tarsomere with 9 apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 13–15 apical teeth and 11–13 platellae. Male genitalia: Phallotheca below midlength with a bifurcate ventral process; phallotheca left laterally with a strongly curved spine (a); phallotheca right laterally with a long spine (b), partly concealed by phallotheca; in lateral view both spines in middle section strongly to moderately curved inwards; in ventral view phallotheca in middle section distinctly bulging left laterally, concealing about half of spine (a) (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 [429]

 

History of changes

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