Species Corylonga lobata Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Corylonga lobata Löcker & Fletcher

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corylonga lobata 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 [98].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: P. Zborowski and A. Calder, 24.x-23.xi.1992, malaise trap), 4kms NE of Batavia Downs, Queensland [12°39S 142°42E].

Introduction

Based on two specimens collected in malaise trap on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.

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. ♂ 4.9–5.6 mm. Head. Vertex 2.3–2.4× longer than wide; produced before eyes by 1/2–3/4 of an eye length; caudal border v-shaped; median carina 1/4–1/2 as long as vertex. Frons more than 2.4× longer than wide; median carina incomplete, 1/4–1/3 as long as frons; lateral margins sometimes foliaceous, concealing base of antennae. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum right or acutely angled. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide; costa with 14–16 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 at same level as fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP slightly distad of apex of clavus; 10–11 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 2–3 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 1st tarsomere with 10 apical teeth and five platellae; 2nd tarsomere with (8–)10 apical teeth and (6–)8 platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with flattened, lobiform spines, a short bifurcated spine right side above midlength, a second, short, slightly curved lobiform spine arising on left side above midlength and a third, short lobiform spine arising ventrally 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 [98]

History of changes