Species Larivierea yokunna Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Larivierea yokunna Löcker & Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Larivierea yokunna Löcker, B. & Fletcher, M.J. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [119].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123590 ♂ (coll: S.A. Thorburn, 26.viii.1960; originally from UQIC), Tibrogargon, Queensland.

Introduction

A small dark species with pale wings recorded at a number of locations 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. Vertex yellow, central part mid brown; face mid brown to black except for yellow lateral carinae on frons, median carina sometimes paler at level of frontoclypeal suture; pronotum yellow; mesonotum mid brown to black with yellow mark on each laterocaudal border; legs yellow to light brown; forewing hyaline yellow, veins yellow, tubercles yellow or light brown; abdominal sternites mid brown, intersegmental membranes pale yellowish. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 3.6–3.7 mm; ♀ 4.3 mm. Head. Vertex produced before eyes by less than 1/4 of an eye length; lateral carinae moderately elevated; median carina incomplete, 1/4–1/2 as long as vertex. Frons 1.5–1.9× longer than wide; lateral carinae slightly to moderately elevated. Thorax. Costa of forewing with 14–21 tubercles. Hind leg: 1st tarsomere with nine apical teeth and four platellae; 2nd tarsomere with eight apical teeth and six platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a short, strongly curved thick spine arising left laterally above midlength; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 118)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [119]

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