Species Innobindus unicornis Löcker, 2007

Innobindus unicorni8s Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute

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Regional Maps

• Innobindus unicornis 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 QM QMT.133349 ♂ (coll: C.J. Burwell, 20-21.xi.1998, 1100m, rainforest, mv lamp), Mt Finnigan summit, N.E. Queensland [15.49S 145.17E].

Introduction

This species is based on three specimens collected at light at 1100m on the summit of Mt Finnigan in the wet tropics of Queensland.

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 brown; forewing hyaline, colourless, apex of wing smoky brown, veins light to mid-brown, crossveins darker, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma dark brown; legs light brown; abdominal sternites mid-brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.8–6.9 mm, ♀ 7.2–7.4 mm. Head: Vertex 0.5× as long as wide. Frons 1.9–2.0× longer than wide. Thorax: Forewing 3.0–3.1× longer than wide; fork of PCu+A1 distad of centre of clavus; costa with 26–33 tubercles. Hind leg: tibia with 3–5 very small lateral spines. Male genitalia: Aedeagus: Phallotheca left lateral with medium-sized, sinuate spine; ventral with medium-sized, fringed ridge. Flagellum left lateral near base with small spine. (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]

History of changes