Species Leades grandis Löcker, 2020

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• Leades grandis Löcker, 2020.
  Zoobank Registration Number:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:CADF50D6-191D-433E-B0DB-3EEE58022A84

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE025960 ♂ (coll:19.x.1978, M.J. Fletcher), Dharug National Park, NW of Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This is the largest known species of Leades and is distributed along the eastern seaboard of mainland Australia from SE Queensland to the Sydney Basin of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This is the largest species within Leades with males reaching a body length of 5.6–5.8 mm. In all other species of Leades (apart from Leades warro Löcker) males are less than 4.5 mm long. Leades grandis can be distinguished from other Leades in having an almost symmetrical arrangement of the two aedeagal spines in ventral view. In ventral view the distal, outermost part of the genital styles is slightly depressed and abruptly bent dorsad, therefore appearing to be missing in ventral view (Löcker 2020).

 

ID Keys

Löcker 2020: 21

 

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B. 2020. Revision of Leades Jacobi with the description of a new genus, Yamirrina gen. nov., and notes on the absence of Iolania Kirkaldy from Australia (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae: Cixiini). Journal of Insect Biodiversity 18(1): 17–49 [28]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839	24-Jul-2020	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher