Species Corylonga krottendorfi Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Corylonga krottendorfi Löcker & Fletcher, holotype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Corylonga krottendorfi 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 [97].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE016810 ♂ (coll: W.W. Froggatt), Moree, New South Wales.

Introduction

A species recorded from a single male specimen from Moree in New South Wales. The species is named after the township of Krottendorf in Austria.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology Body length. ♂ 6.4 mm. Head. Vertex 2.1× longer than wide; produced before eyes by 3/4–1× eye length; caudal border u-shaped; median carina 1/4–1/3 as long as vertex. Frons at least 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 ~18 tubercles; Sc+R forming common stem, with M emerging separately from basal cell; fork of Sc+R basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP at same level as apex of clavus; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with four small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 1st tarsomere with 10 apical teeth and five platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 10 apical teeth and eight platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a slightly curved spine arising on right side near apex, a second slightly curved spine on left side above midlength, a third, moderately curved spine ventrally about midlength, and a fourth, moderately curved spine more basally; 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 [97]

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