Species Guttala nickeli Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Guttala nickeli Löcker & Larivière, holotype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Guttala nickeli 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: E. Britton, 15.ii.1966), 22mls S of Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

Introduction

This species, based on a single male specimen from near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, has the three apical spots on the tegmen slightly bullate, less obviously than in the type species G. mona. The name honours Herbert Nickel, leafhopper taxonomist in Germany.

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 brownish yellow, lateral carinae paler. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 5.1 mm. Head. Vertex 0.7× as long as wide; median carina incomplete, 1/4–1/2 as long as vertex. Postclypeus with well developed lateral carinae and median carina. Thorax. Pronotum with sinuate carinae. Costa of forewing with 1–3 tubercles; fork of Sc+R basad of or at same level as fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 basad of or at same level as fork MA–MP; position of icu at CuP only slightly distad of apex of clavus. Hind leg: tibia without lateral spines; six apical teeth in row interrupted by a wide gap; 1st tarsomere with 13 or 16 apical teeth and seven or nine platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 13 apical teeth and 11 platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a short bifurcated spine ventrally, a short, slightly curved spine ventrolaterally, a long moderately curved spine left laterally, and a short, slightly curved, cylindrical spine dorsally (all spines arising above midlength); 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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