Species Gurrundus fuscomarginatus Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Gurrundus fuscomarginatus Löcker & Larivière, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

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Regional Maps

• Gurrundus fuscomarginatus 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 data:

   Holotype QM T123591 ♂ (coll: G. Daniels, M.A. Schneider, 5.xii.1986, m.v. lamp; originally from UQIC 55329), West Claudie River, 4.5km SW of road junction, N. Queensland [12°44'S 143°15'E].

Introduction

A small brown planthopper known from a single male from Claudie River in far North Queensland and a single female from near the Gloucester River in New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), NSW North Coast (NNC)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex light brown; face mid brown with light brown carinae; pronotum light brown; mesonotum dark brown, central part mid brown; legs straw coloured to mid brown; forewing hyaline grey with light brown to mid brown areas, veins concolorous with cells, tubercles mid brown; abdominal sternites brown, intersegmental membranes pale yellow. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 4.5 mm; ♀ 5.4 mm. Head. Vertex 1.5× longer than wide; lateral carinae strongly elevated. Median carina of frons incomplete, 1/2–3/4 as long as frons. Thorax. Pronotum with slightly undulating carinae. Concavity at costal border present or absent; Sc+R+M forming common stem; fork of Sc+R basad of (almost at same level as) fork of CuA1+CuA2; r-m1 distad of fork MA–MP; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 2–3 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines). Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long slightly curved spine arising on right side above midlength and a long almost straight spine arising ventrolaterally above midlength; flagellum without spines but with long sclerotised blade. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2006: 107

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]

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