Species Gaetulia hackeri Muir, 1924

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• Gaetulia hackeri Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Ho.2756 ♀ (coll.: 2.xii.1921, H. Hacker), Russell Island, Queensland.

Introduction

Muir (1924) states that this species is more typical of the genus than the better known G. chrysopoides. The species is only known from the type locality which is in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Vertex distinctly longer than wide, apex narrower than base and angular, base angularly emarginate, sides carinate, disc excavate; frons considerably longer than wide, base narrower than apex, widest slightly before apex, sides straight to near apex then curved, carinate, a strong median carina; clypeus with a median carina, no lateral carinae. Antennae small, globose. Pronotum short, hind margin widely angularly emarginate, anterior margin produced into angular emargination of vertex, lateral carinae large, diverging, not reaching hind margin, median carina obscure; mesonotum slightly longer than wide. Middle of mesonotum broken by pin so carinae cannot be observed. Venation of tegmen normal, Sc + R fork very slightly basad of M fork and Cu fork, apical crossveins of M contiguous, forming a line, those of Sc and R irregular. Costal membrane with ten crossveins. The apex of costal cell not forming a small knob as in G. chrysopoides (Walk.). Apex of abdomen rounded; anal segment small; ovipositor incomplete, sheaths wide, rounded, together forming a hemisphere covering the ovipositor. Three black, longitudinal lines on frons, one over median carina which extends onto clypeus and the other two between carinae; lateral carinae, genae, and sides of clypeus stramineous; middle of vertex fuscous, carinae stramineous, nota stramineous with fuscous markings forming longitudinal lines on mesonotum. Abdomen dark stramineous or light brown, lighter on the outer portions of tergites and on hind margins, first visible sternite (true third) light yellow, other fuscous yellow. Tegmina clear hyaline, veins dark brown, costal vein and basal cell lighter, a small dark brown spot at apex of costal cell; wings clear hyaline, veins dark brown, a fuscous mark on apical portion of anal area. (Muir 1924).

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [33–34]

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