Species Guttala bernhardtae Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Guttala bernhardtae Löcker & Larivière, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Guttala bernhardtae 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 [110].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: M. Mendum, 19.vi.1969), 25km S of Wave Hill Police Station, Northern Territory [17°39'S 130°52'E].

Introduction

This species is less distinctive than others in the genus since the apical spots are broader infuscations around the apical veins than bullate spots. It was named in honour of the first author’s friend Theresia Bernhardt.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex light brown, central part mid brown. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 5.2 mm. Head. Vertex as long as wide; median carina incomplete, 1/4–1/2 as long as vertex. Postclypeus with well developed lateral carinae and evanescent median carina. Thorax. Pronotum with sinuate to arched carinae. Costa of forewing with 15–17 tubercles; fork of Sc+R basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 basad 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 a wide gap; 1st tarsomere with 11 apical teeth and five platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 10 apical teeth and eight platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a moderately curved spine arising ventrolaterally, a second long moderately curved spine left laterally, and a third short, slightly curved, cylindrical spine dorsally (all spines arising near apex); flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2006: 109

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 [110]

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