Species Corylonga aaroni Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Corylonga aaroni Löcker & Fletcher, holotype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corylonga aaroni Löcker, B. & Fletcher, M.J. 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 [96].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: E.C.B. Langfield, 28.xii.1956), Kimberley Research Station, via Wyndham, NW Western Australia.

Introduction

Based on a single specimen from Kimberley Research Station in northern Western Australia. It was named in honour of Aaron Simmons who was a fellow postgraduate student of the first author at the University of Sydney, Orange campus.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology Body length. ♂ 5.0 mm. Head. Vertex 1.8× longer than wide; produced before eyes by 1/2–3/4 of an eye length; caudal border u-shaped; median carina 1/4–1/3 as long as vertex. Frons more than 2.3× longer than wide; median carina incomplete, ~1/3× as long as frons. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum rectangular. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide; costa with ~14 tubercles; Sc+R forming common stem, M emerging separately from basal cell; fork of Sc+R basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP distad of apex of clavus; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with three small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 1st tarsomere with 11 apical teeth and six platellae; 2nd tarsomere with nine apical teeth and seven platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long strongly curved spine arising on right side above midlength, passing phallotheca dorsally and ending at left side of phallotheca, a second, long, moderately curved spine on left side above midlength, a third, shorter spine, curved sinuate in two planes, arising right lateral about midlength, and a fourth, short, slightly curved spine with enlarged base on left side above midlength; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2006: 95

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 [96]

History of changes