Species Gurrundus nectostylus Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Gurrundus nectostylus Löcker & Larivière, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Gurrundus nectostylus 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 [108].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: Upton & Barret, 30.ix.1978), 33km WNW of Alice Springs, Northern Territory [23°36'S 133°34'E].

Introduction

This species is based on a single male specimen from near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: MacDonnell Ranges (MAC)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex pale yellow, central part dark brown, median carina yellow to brown, lateral carinae yellow; face dark brown, lateral carinae pale yellow, median carina orange; pronotum yellow with dark brown marks; mesonotum dark brown to black, central part orange brown, carinae and hind border of mesonotum orange; legs yellow to brown; forewing hyaline white with a few mid brown marks especially along crossveins, veins white, tubercles dark brown; abdominal sternites mid to dark brown, intersegmental membranes yellow to orange. Morphology. Body length ♂ 5.1 mm. Head. Vertex as long as wide; lateral carinae moderately elevated. Median carina of frons incomplete, ~3/4 as long as frons. Thorax. Pronotum with interrupted carinae, apically integrated with lateral carinae to form circular carinal loop. Concavity at costal border absent; Sc+R+M forming very short common stem; fork of Sc+R distad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 basad of or at same level as fork MA–MP; eight apical cells. Hind leg: tibia without lateral spines. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long bent spine arising ventrally above midlength and a long, slightly curved spine arising ventrolaterally above midlength; flagellum apically with spine. (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 [108]

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