Species Leptolamia juliae Löcker, 2014

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• Leptolamia juliae 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] [414].
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  Type data:

   Holotype UQIC T183312 ♂ (coll: T. E. Woodward, 28.x.1955, sweeping shrubs), Nagarigoon Falls, Lamington NP, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This small brown species with mainly transparent wings is known from rainforest areas of SE Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

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. Vertex light brown, disc of apical (and rarely basal) compartment dark. Frons mid to dark brown, lateral carinae light brown. Clypeus including carinae dark brown. Pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid or dark brown. Forewing hyaline colourless with some light brown marks along crossveins and veins near apical margin of wing; pterostigma basally whitish, apically light to mid brown. Legs light brown. Abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 3.8–4.2 mm. Head: Vertex 2.3–2.4× wider than long; at level of basal emargination about 1.1× wider than at subapical carina; apical carina v-shaped, subapical carina v-shaped (rarely u-shaped); median carina of vertex absent; basal compartment 2.0–2.5× longer than apical compartment. Frons 1.2–1.5× longer than wide; frons just not visible in dorsal view. Position of maximum width of frons distinctly dorsad of centre of frontoclypeal suture. Frontoclypeal suture 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 about same width or slightly wider than head (including eyes). Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled or rectangular. Forewing 3.5–3.6× longer than wide; forewing with well-developed basal emargination; costa with about 30–37 tubercles, tubercles concolorous with veins; Sc+R+Mnear 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 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 slightly 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 more or less symmetrical in dorsal and caudal view; lateral lobe triangular in lateral view. Ventromedian process of pygofer triangular to trapezoid, uniformly coloured. Aedeagus: Phallotheca ventrally with a large, ridge-like, trifurcate spine (a), left laterally with a long, well sclerotised spine (b) and a sheet-like ridge, bearing a short, less sclerotised spine (c). 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] [414–415]

 

History of changes

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