Species Leades warro Löcker, 2020

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• Leades warro Löcker, 2020.
  Zoobank Registration Number:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:61532048-A288-4800-88B4-C36EF14D4460

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K559601 ♂ (coll: 30.viii.1987, Woolley), 40km E of Wanaaring T., New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species is distributed in more arid parts of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. It has been collected from native plants of the families Myrtaceae (Thryptomene), Sapindaceae (Dodonaea) and Fabaceae (Senna).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species can be differentiated from all other species of Leades except for L. centralis by the presence of an apical row of eight or more spines on the hind tibia, all spines arranged in a row without a gap. From L. centralis it can be differentiated by the apical direction of spine (a) of the aedeagus. Females cannot be differentiated with certainty (Löcker 2020).

The distributions of the two species are quite separate as well with L. centralis only known from the SW coastal regions of Western Australia while L. warro is only known from inland sites far from coastal areas.

 

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

 

History of changes

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