Species Cordoliarus mareebensis Löcker, 2006

Cordoliarus mareebensis Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Cordoliarus mareebensis Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123825 ♂ (coll: J.F. Donaldson, D-vac, 31.i.1982 (originally in QDPI)), 32 km W of Mareeba, Queensland.

Introduction

This species is known from a male and female from the wet tropics of north Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour Body dark brown, carinae paler, frons laterally with a pale mark; legs light to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins, veins mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology Body length: ♂ 6.2 mm, ♀ 5.6–7.3. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent carinae. Forewing 2.9 times longer than wide; costa with 20–28 tubercles; 10 apical cells. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a flattened bifurcate spine left lateral; a short, rounded spine; a longer, rounded spine ventral; and a very long flattened spine right lateral. Flagellum sclerotised, unarmed. (Löcker et al. 2006)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [13]

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