Species Innobindus alternans Löcker, 2007

Innobindus alternans Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Innobindus alternans Löcker, B. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the genus Innobindus Jacobi (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of six new species and comments on other Australian Brixiini genera. Australian Journal of Entomology 46: 45-55 [53].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM QMT.133351 ♂ (coll: G. Monteith, 28.i-3.ii.1963 Originally in UQIC), [Lamington] National Park, Queensland.

Introduction

Based on a small series of specimens from Lamington National Park in SE Queensland. This is the only member of the multimaculatus group not found in North Queensland.

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. Body light, mid- or dark brown, mesonotum and disc of frons and vertex slightly darker; forewing hyaline, colourless, with scattered brown marks, veins light or mid-brown with a few paler sections, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid-brown; legs light brown; abdominal sternites mid-brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.2–7.4 mm, ♀ 6.8–7.4 mm. Head: Vertex 0.5–0.7× as long as wide . Frons 2.0–2.3× longer than wide. Thorax: Forewing 2.5–2.8× longer than wide; fork of PCu+A1 distad of centre of clavus; costa with 31–35 tubercles. Hind leg: tibia with 1–3 very small lateral spines. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca right lateral with medium-sized, curved spine; right and left lateral near base with minute spine; ventral with pair of very small spines. Flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et al. 2007)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2007: 47

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2007. Revision of the genus Innobindus Jacobi (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of six new species and comments on other Australian Brixiini genera. Australian Journal of Entomology 46: 45-55 [53]

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