Species Innobindus collessi Löcker, 2007

Innobindus collessi Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Innobindus collessi 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 [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: D.H. Colless, 6.v.1967), Mt Edith Forest Road, 1.5m off Danbulla Road, North Queensland.

Introduction

A member of the multimaculatus species group from North Queensland. The species was named in honour of the eminent Australian dipterist, Don Colless, who collected the holotype.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body light to mid-brown; forewing hyaline, colourless, with scattered brown marks, veins light brown with midbrown sections, crossveins mid-brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma mid-brown; legs light brown; abdominal sternites mid-brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.3–6.1, ♀ 6.4 mm. Head: Vertex 0.4–0.6× as long as wide. Frons 1.8–2.0× longer than wide. Thorax: Forewing 2.7–3.0× longer than wide; fork of Pcu+A1 distad of centre of clavus; costa with 26–36 tubercles. Hind leg: tibia with 2–3 very small lateral spines. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca left lateral with medium-sized, curved spine; ventral with small, fringed ridge. 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 [54]

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