Species Corylonga loisae Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Corylonga loisae Löcker & Fletcher

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corylonga loisae 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 [95].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: E.C.B. Langfield, 5.ix.1956), Kimberley Research Station, via Wyndham, NW Western Australia.

Introduction

Described from a series of male specimens from Kimberley Research Station in northern Western Australia. The species is named in honour of the planthopper taxonomist Lois O'Brien.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length. ♂ 5.1–5.7 mm. Head. Vertex 1.7–2.8× longer than wide; produced before eyes by 3/4–1× eye length; caudal border u-shaped; median carina ~1/3 as long as vertex. Frons at least 2.2× longer than wide; median carina incomplete, ~1/3 as long as frons. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum right or acutely angled. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide; costa with 16–18 tubercles; Sc+R forming common stem, with M emerging separately from basal cell (rarely Sc+R+M forming very short common stem); fork of Sc+R distad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP distad of or at same level as apex of clavus; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 3–4 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 1st tarsomere with 10–12 apical teeth and (4–)5 or 7 platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 9–10(–11) apical teeth and 7–8 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 moderately curved spine on left side above midlength and a third, shorter spine, curved sinuate in two planes, arising right lateral below 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 [95]

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