Species Corylonga leighi Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Corylonga leighi Löcker & Fletcher

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corylonga leighi 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 ANIC ♂ (coll: T. Weir, 29.vi-5.vii.1998, at light, open forest), Langi Lagoon, Mungkan Kandju NP, Queensland [13°27'S 142°42'E].

Introduction

Based on a single male specimen collected at light at Mungkan Kandju National Park, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. The species is named after Leigh Pilkington who was a fellow postgraduate student of the first author at the University of Sydney, Orange campus.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology Body length. ♂ 5.8 mm. Head. Vertex 2× longer than wide; produced before eyes by 3/4–1× eye length; caudal border u-shaped; caudal border v-shaped; median carina less than 1/4 as long as vertex. Frons more than 2.3× longer than wide; median carina incomplete, 1/3–1/2 as long as frons. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum rectangular. Forewing more than 4× longer than wide; costa with 11–14 tubercles; Sc+R+M forming very short common stem or Sc+R forming common stem, with M emerging separately from basal cell; fork of Sc+R distad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP at same level as apex of clavus; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with ~3 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 1st tarsomere with 11–12 apical teeth and 6–7 platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 10 apical teeth and eight platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long moderately curved spine arising on right side above midlength and ending dorsal of phallotheca, a second moderately curved spine on left side above midlength and a third, shorter spine moderately curved in one plane arising ventrolaterally about 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 [97]

History of changes