Species Leptolamia glaciata Löcker, 2014

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• Leptolamia glaciata 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] [405].
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  Type data:

   Holotype AM K.351929 ♂ (coll: 8.xii.1986, D.J. Bickel, 1200m), Mt Banda Banda, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This dark brown species is only known from the type locality on the mid North Coast of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore

 

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex light brown, disc slightly darker. Face dark brown with paler carinae (i.e. lateral carinae); disc of frons near apical carina paler. Pronotum light brown, mesonotum dark brown. Forewing hyaline mid brown (rarely light brown) with 3 white marks along dorsal margin (2 within clavus, one distad of apex of clavus) and a white mark at base of pterostigma, pterostigma darker apically; veins and tubercles concolorous with cells. Legs light brown, darker towards coxae. Abdominal sternites dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 3.9–4.1 mm, ♀ 4.4–4.5 mm. Head: Vertex 2.3–2.9× wider than long; at level of basal emargination about 1.2× wider than at subapical carina; apical and subapical carina v-shaped; median carina of vertex absent; basal compartment of vertex 1.1–2.0× longer than apical compartment. Frons 1.1–1.2× longer than wide; frons clearly visible in dorsal view. Position of maximum width of frons more or less around centre of frontoclypeal suture. Frontoclypeal suture straight or slightly semicircular, bent upwards, median part not reaching lower margin of antennal scape. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae; apical segment of rostrum almost as long as subapical segment. Thorax: Pronotum slightly to moderately wider than head (including eyes). Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Forewing 3.1–3.4× longer than wide; forewing with welldeveloped basal emargination; costa with about 27–28 tubercles, tubercles concolorous with veins; Sc+R+M near basal cell fused, forming a short-to-moderate (half of length of basal cell or less) common stem Sc+R+M; fork of ScRA+RP moderately to 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 CuA at same level as apex of clavus; position of icu at CuP more or less at same level as apex of clavus; RP apically trifid; MA apically trifid; additional subapical cell between branches of MA absent; nodus of y-vein distinctly basad of centre of clavus; vein delimiting subapical cell C4 distinctly distad of vein delimiting C5; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: 1st and 2nd tarsomere with 6 apical teeth. Male genitalia: Anal tube symmetrical in dorsal and caudal view; lateral lobe triangular in lateral view. Ventromedian process of pygofer triangular, uniformly coloured. Aedeagus: Phallotheca left laterally with a large, curved spine (a) bearing two very small, parallel spines (b,c), ventrally with a sclerotised ridge bearing a short spine (d). 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] [409–410]

 

History of changes

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