Species Guttala robierae Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Guttala robierae Löcker & Larivière, holotype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Guttala robierae 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 [112].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: M. Mendum, 18.vii.1969), 60km SSW of Victoria River Downs, Northern Territory.

Introduction

This species, with three distinct bullate spots on the tegmen, was based on a single male specimen from near Victoria River Downs, Northern Territory. It was named in honour of the first author’s friend Daniela Robier.

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 whitish stripe ranging from lateral carinae to caudal border of vertex. Three dark brown slightly bullate spots on the apex of forewing. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 5.1 mm. Head. Vertex as long as wide; median carina incomplete, less than 1/4 as long as vertex. Postclypeus with evanescent lateral carinae and median carina. Thorax. Pronotum with arched carinae. Costa of forewing with 18–19 tubercles; fork of Sc+R 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 without 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, deeply bifurcated spine ventrally, a shorter, in its basal third bifurcated 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 [112]

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