Species Leptolamia gloriosa Löcker, 2014

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• Leptolamia gloriosa 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] [411].
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  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 17633 ♂ (coll: L. & M. Gressitt, 24–28.ii.1961, rainforest), Mt Glorious, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This pale yellowish brown species with dark brown mesonotum is only known from the holotype male from Mt Glorious 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 mid brown, carinae (i.e. lateral carinae) paler. Pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid to dark brown. Forewing hyaline light brown; slightly darker along crossveins; pterostigma basally whitish, apically darker. Legs light brown. Abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 3.8 mm. Head: Vertex about 1.8× wider than long; at level of basal emargination about 1.1× wider than at subapical carina; apical carina v-shaped, subapical carina u-shaped; median carina of vertex absent; basal compartment about 3.0× longer than apical compartment. Frons 1.5× longer than wide; frons just 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. Thorax: Pronotum slightly wider than head (including eyes). Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Forewing 3.3× longer than wide; forewing with slightly developed basal emargination; costa with about 30 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 at same level or 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 with lateral margin excavated. Ventromedian process of pygofer trapezoid, margin darkened. Aedeagus: Phallotheca ventrally with medium-sized, curved spine (a) and a large ridge bearing two curved spines (b, c); left laterally with a thick, well-sclerotised, bifurcate spine (d) inserting at apex of phallotheca; dorsally with a large, triangular sheet-like ridge bearing a short spine (e). 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] [411–412]

 

History of changes

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