Species Fletcherolus lanceolatus Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Fletcherolus lanceolatus Löcker & Larivière

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Fletcherolus lanceolatus Löcker, B. & Larivière, M.-C. 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 [102].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123600 ♂ (coll: J.F. Donaldson & J.W. Turner, 29.vii.1982, at light; originally from QDPI), Statton River, nr Inkermann HS, N. Queensland.

Introduction

The species is based on two male specimens collected at light NW of Normanton in North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length. ♂ 5.0–5.3 mm. Head. Vertex produced before eyes by 1/2–3/4 of an eye length. Frons 1.5–1.9× longer than wide, position of maximum width around centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae convex (although rectilinear apically) or double s-shaped. Anteclypeus with evanescent median carina. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide; costa with 14–16 tubercles; fork of Sc+R basad of, or at same level as, fork of CuA1+CuA2. Hind leg: tibia with 3–4 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines). Male genitalia. Aedeagus with a long, slightly sinuate spine arising right laterally near apex and straight, flattened and a bifurcated lance-shaped spine right laterally above midlength; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2006: 102

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 [102]

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