Species Guttala mona Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Guttala mona Löcker & Larivière, holotype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Guttala mona 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, 18.vii.1969), 60km SSW of Victoria River Downs, Northern Territory.

Introduction

This species is based on a single male specimen from near Victoria River Downs in the Northern Territory. The name was derived from the name of first author’s friend Monika Klaisner.

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 mid brown, with yellow stripe on each side ranging from lateral carina to caudal border of vertex. Three dark brown slightly bullate spots on the apex of forewing. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 5.4 mm. Head. Vertex 0.7× as long as wide; median carina incomplete, less than 1/4 as long as vertex. Postclypeus with well developed lateral carinae and evanescent median carina. Thorax. Pronotum with sinuate carinae. Costa of forewing with 15–16 tubercles; fork of Sc+R distinctly basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 basad of fork MA–MP; position of icu at CuP distad of apex of clavus, nine apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with one small lateral spine (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 strongly curved bifurcated spine ventrally, a short strongly curved spine ventrolaterally, and a long, strongly curved, blade-like spine dorsally; 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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