Species Innobindus robinae Löcker, 2007

Innobindus robinae Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

Museums

Regional Maps

• Innobindus robinae 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 [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I21763 ♂ (coll: Lea), Lawson, New South Wales.

Introduction

This species is based on a single male specimen from Lawson, in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales. A second specimen, from near Taree on the NSW North Coast, was not included in the type series because it varied in the spination of the aedeagus although typical of the species in other features. The species was named in honour of Robin Thompson, a friend of the authors.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body light brown, forewing hyaline, colourless with scattered brown marks, veins light brown with darker sections, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light or midbrown; legs and abdominal sternites light brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.0–6.2 mm. Head: Vertex 0.7× as long as wide. Frons 1.8–2.1× longer than wide. Thorax: Forewing 2.9–3.3× longer than wide; MP apically bifid or trifid; costa with 17–25 tubercles; 10–11 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 2–5 very small lateral spines; tibia with 6 apical teeth forming uninterrupted row of spines or small gap present, dividing spines in 2 groups of 3 teeth; 1st tarsomere with 7 or 8 apical teeth; 2nd tarsomere with 7 or 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 medium-sized, strongly curved spine with its tip curved dorsad; left lateral with sinuate spine; dorsal with slightly curved spine; right lateral 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 [50]

History of changes