Species Innobindus licinus Löcker, 2007

Innobindus licinus Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

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Regional Maps

• Innobindus licinus 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 [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: M.S. Upton, 1.xi.1965, 800ft), 5 miles NW of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.

Introduction

Known only from Coffs Harbour on the NSW North Coast.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex mid- to dark brown with 2 light brown stripes; face light brown, disc of frons darker; pronotum light brown, mesonotum darker; forewing hyaline, colourless with scattered brown marks, veins light brown with darker sections, crossveins and pterostigma mid-brown, tubercles concolorous with veins; legs light brown; abdominal sternites mid-brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.1–5.8 mm, ♀ 6.1 mm. Head: Vertex 0.6–0.7× as long as wide. Frons 2.0–2.2× longer than wide. Thorax: Forewing 3.0–3.2× longer than wide; MP apically bifid; costa with 16–23 tubercles; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 1–5 very small lateral spines; tibia with 6 apical teeth forming uninterrupted row of spines; 1st tarsomere with 7 apical teeth; 2nd tarsomere with 8 apical teeth and 2–3 very fine setae underneath row of apical teeth, without platellae. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca ventral with pair of very small spines and very long, strongly curved spine with its tip curved caudad (upwards); left lateral with sinuate spine; dorsal with slightly curved spine. 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 [48]

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