Species Gelastocephalus velifer Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Gelastocephalus velifer Löcker & Larivière, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Gelastocephalus velifer 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 [106].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE026730 ♂ (coll: Löcker & Pilkington, 21.xi.2003, sticky trap), Cadia Valley Gold Mine, Tunbridge Wells Farm, Four Mile Creek Road, New South Wales [33°38'S 149°12'E].

Introduction

This species is based on two specimens from widely separate localities in the Central West of New South Wales and near Melbourne, Victoria. Females identified only to the level of genus may indicate that the species extends to South Australia as well.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Legs dark brown with yellow 1st and 2nd tarsal segments, or legs yellow to mid brown; abdominal sternites mid to dark brown, intersegmental membranes orange. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 4.0 mm. Head. Vertex as long as wide, produced before eyes by 1/4–1/2 of eye length; median carina incomplete, ~1/4 as long as vertex. Frons with lateral carinae convex (although rectilinear apically). Lateral carinae on postclypeus evanescent. Thorax. Pronotum with sinuate carinae; hind margin rectangular. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide; costa with 23–24 tubercles; r–m1 distad of or at same level as fork MA–MP; position of icu at CuP distad of apex of clavus; nine apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 1–2 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); six apical teeth in row interrupted by small or wide gap; 1st tarsomere with seven apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with eight apical teeth and six platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long sclerotised completely straight spine concealed almost in its entire length by large membranous lobe; flagellum unarmed.

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2006: 105

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 [106]

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