Species Dilacreon (Dilacreon) akethe Löcker, 2010

Dilacreon (Dilacreon) akethe Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dilacreon (Dilacreon) akethe Löcker, B. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa 2425: 1-31 [9].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T.156364 ♂ (coll: 6–10.vi.1969, G.B. Monteith (originally from UQIC)), Lockerbie, Cape York, Queensland.

Introduction

This plain brown species with a pale face is based on two males and a female from Lockerbie, Cape York Peninsula, North 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

Colour. Head, thorax and abdomen light brown. Forewings light brown except for slightly darker crossveins and some slightly darker marks near apex of forewing. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.4–4.7 mm; ♀ 4.9 mm. Head: Vertex 2.6–3.9 times wider than long; with indistinct median carina. Frons 1.0 times as long as wide; frons distinctly visible in dorsal view. Rostrum slightly surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Mesonotum with lateral carinae evenly curved as in Fig. 3A. Forewing 2.5–2.7 times longer than wide; with about 26–30 tubercles on costa; Sc+R fused, forming common stem Sc+R, M emerging separately from basal cell or Sc+R+M fused, forming very short common stem; Sc+R forking at same level as fork CuA1+CuA2; position of crossvein R-M at same level as fork MA-MP. Male genitalia: Anal tube slightly asymmetrical in dorsal view, apical lobes rounded in lateral view. Genital styles with inner side of basal arm bearing small tooth. Ventromedian process of pygofer triangular. Aedeagus: Phallotheca dorsally with very short spine directed caudad; right laterally with very long spine and left laterally with very long spine. Flagellum right laterally with short spine (c) situated above midlength of flagellum and left laterally with short, less sclerotised spine. (Löcker et.al. 2010)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2010: 8)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa (2425): 1-31 [9]

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