Species Innobindus marginatus Löcker, 2007

Innobindus marginatus Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

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• Innobindus marginatus 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 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM QMT133350 ♂ (coll: H. Hacker, xii.1921), [Lamington] National Park, Queensland.

Introduction

The most northerly member of the multimaculatus species group based on two males collected in Lamington National Park, in SE 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 brown, forewing hyaline, colourless with brown marks (mainly along the apex of wing), veins and tubercles light brown, pterostigma mid-brown; legs light brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.3 mm.
Head: Vertex 0.7× as long as wide. Frons 2.1× longer than wide. Thorax: Forewing 3.0× longer than wide; MP apically bifid; costa with 16–19 tubercles; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 2–3 very small lateral spines; tibia with 6 apical teeth forming uninterrupted row of spines; 1st tarsomere with 7 apical teeth; 2nd tarsomere with 8–9 apical teeth and 6–7 platellae, without fine setae. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca ventral with pair of very small spines and short, slender spine with its tip curved cephalad; left lateral with medium-sized, sclerotised spine; dorsal with medium-sized, less sclerotised spine; left lateral with minute spine. Flagellum unarmed.
Remarks. The chaetotaxy of I. marginatus differs from other species within this genus in the presence of 6–7 platellae instead of 1–3 fine setae on the 2nd hind tarsomere. (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 [49]

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