Genus Gurrundus Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gurrundus 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 [107].

  Type species:

   Gurrundus fuscomarginatus Löcker & Larivière, 2006 by original designation.

Introduction

Two species were described in this genus, one from near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, and the other from far North Queensland and from Barrington Tops State Forest in New South Wales. The genus name honours Geoff Gurr, principal supervisor of the first author's PhD project at the University of Sydney, Orange campus.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), NSW North Coast (NNC)

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length. ♂ 4.5–5.1 mm, ♀ 5.4 mm. Head. Vertex produced before eyes by less than 1/2–3/4 of an eye length; apex broadly rounded; caudal border u-shaped; median carina incomplete, 1/4–1/2 as long as vertex. Frons 1.9–2.3× longer than wide, position of maximum width around centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae convex (although rectilinear apically), moderately elevated; median carina incomplete. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, median part not reaching lower margin of antennal scape; postclypeus with well developed lateral carinae and median carina; anteclypeus with well developed median carina. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum rectangular. Forewing 3.0–3.5× longer than wide; costa with 12–14 tubercles; Sc+R+M forming common stem; position of icu at CuP at same level as apex of clavus. Hind tibia with six apical teeth in row interrupted by a wide gap; 1st tarsomere with seven apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with eight apical teeth and six platellae. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J., Löcker, B., Larivière, M.C. and Löcker, H. (2006). Illustrated Key to the Australian Genera of the Planthopper Tribe Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae: Fulgoromorpha) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/cixiid/gelastocephalini/gel00.htm

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 [107]

History of changes