Species Hartliebia towinna Löcker & Larivière, 2006

Hartliebia towinna Löcker & Larivière

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Hartliebia towinna 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 [113].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123592 ♂ (coll: T. Woodward, 11.ix.1954; originally from UQIC), Victoria Pt, Brisbane, Queensland.

Introduction

A small brown species with an acute head and concavity along the costal margin. Confined to SE Queensland, one specimen was collected on Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T. Blake, the broad-leaved paperbark.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex yellow brown; face yellow brown, anteclypeus darker; pronotum yellow; mesonotum yellow brown or mid brown with paler carinae; legs yellow to brown; forewing hyaline white with light and mid brown areas, veins concolorous with cells, tubercles mid brown; abdominal sternites mid brown, intersegmental membranes yellow to orange. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 4.4–4.6 mm; ♀ 4.8–5.5 mm. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a very long, slightly curved spine arising near apex and a short spine ventrally below midlength; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et al. 2006)

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 [113]

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