Species Corylonga mahmudae Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Corylonga mahmudae Löcker & Fletcher, holotype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corylonga mahmudae 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 [99].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123596 ♂ (coll: J.F. Donaldson & J.F. Turner, 27.vii.1982, at light, wild rice swamp; originally from QDPI), Red Lily Lagoon, Kowanyama, N. Queensland
  Comment: the type locality was given as "Red Lilly Lagoon" in the original description (Löcker et al. 2006).

Introduction

This species was based on a single male specimen collected at light in a wild rice swamp. It is named after Mahmuda Begum, 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. ♂ 5.5 mm. Head. Vertex 1.8× 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 2.2× longer than wide; median carina incomplete, ~1/3 as long as frons. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum rectangular. Forewing more than 4× longer than wide; costa with ~12 tubercles; Sc+R forming common stem, with M emerging separately from basal cell; fork of Sc+R distad of or at same level as fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP at same level as apex of clavus; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with three 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 one 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 about midlength and a third, shorter spine moderately curved in one plane arising ventrolaterally 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 [99]

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