Species Leptolamia bifurcata Löcker, 2014

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• Leptolamia bifurcata Löcker, B. 2014. Shedding light on Jacobi's types whilst discovering new species: a taxonomic revision of Leptolamia Metcalf, 1936 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Austral Entomology 53: 391–423 [Article first published online: 14 APR 2014] [397].
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  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE035072 ♂ (coll: 10.xi.1989, M. Purcell), Mary Cairncross Pk, 6 km SE Maleny, Queensland.

 

Introduction

A pale brown species known only from Mary Cairncross Park near Maleny in SE Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

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. Head and thorax (including legs) light brown. Forewing hyaline light brown with a dark mark basal of pterostigma and dark marks along some veins near apex of forewing and along crossveins; veins and tubercles concolorous with cells; pterostigma mid or dark brown. Abdominal sternites mid to dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.2–4.3 mm. Head: Vertex about 1.8× wider than long; at level of basal emargination 1.1–1.2× wider than at subapical carina; apical carina v-shaped, subapical carina u- to v-shaped; median carina of vertex covering 1∕2 of basal compartment of vertex; basal compartment 2.2–2.4× longer than apical compartment. Frons 1.5–1.6× longer than wide; frons not visible in dorsal view. Position of maximum width of frons distinctly distad of centre of frontoclypeal suture. Frontoclypeal suture slightly semicircular, bent upwards, median part not reaching lower margin of antennal scape. Rostrum reaching hind coxae; apical segment of rostrum almost as long as subapical segment. Thorax: Pronotum moderately wider than head (including eyes). Hind margin of pronotum rectangular to slightly obtuse. Forewing 3.3–3.5× longer than wide; forewing with slightly developed basal emargination; costa with about 30–31 tubercles, tubercles concolorous with veins; Sc+R+M near basal cell fused, forming a long (more than half of length of basal cell) common stem Sc+R+M; fork of ScRA+RP distinctly basad of fork CuA1+CuA2; position of r-m distad of fork MA+MP; transverse veinlet M3+4 to Cu1a inserting at M3+4 basad of r-m; position of icu at CuAdistad of apex of clavus; position of icu at CuP more or less at same level or slightly distant of apexof clavus; RP apically bifid; MA apically trifid; additional subapical cell between branches of MA absent; nodus of y-vein slightly basad of centre of clavus; vein delimiting subapical cell C4 distinctly distad of vein delimiting C5; 9 apical cells. Hind leg: 1st and 2nd tarsomere with 6 apical teeth. Male genitalia: Anal tube asymmetrical in dorsal and caudal view; left lateral lobe subrectangular (widening towards apex) and right lateral lobe oval in lateral view. Ventromedian process of pygofer triangular, uniformly coloured. Aedeagus: Phallotheca ventrolaterally with large bifurcate spine (a) with tips of different length and large bifurcate spine (b) with tips of equal length; right lateral with a semi-circular, sheet-like ridge. Flagellum unarmed. (Löcker 2014).

 

ID Keys

Löcker 2014: 2–3

 

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B. 2014. Shedding light on Jacobi's types whilst discovering new species: a taxonomic revision of Leptolamia Metcalf, 1936 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Austral Entomology 53: 391–423 [Article first published online: 14 APR 2014] [397–398]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839	16-May-2014	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher