Species Leptolamia lunata Löcker, 2014

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• Leptolamia lunata 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] [416].
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  Type data:

   Holotype AM K.351930 ♂ (coll: D.K. McAlpine & G. Holloway, 12.i.1967), Speewah Rd, 5 mi. S of Kuranda, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This is a pale yellow brown species from the Wet Tropics of North Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore

 

Diagnosis

Colour. Head and thorax orange with a light brown tinge; clypeus sometimes darker. Forewing hyaline light brown; apical margin slightly darker between apex of clavus and pterostigma; mid brown mark basal of pterostigma; veins and tubercles concolorous with cells; pterostigma mid brown. Legs light brown (rarely mid brown). Abdominal sternites mid brown, often with an orange margin. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.0–5.7 mm, ♀ 5.3–6.1 mm. Head: Vertex 1.3–1.8× wider than long; at level of basal emargination 1.1–1.4× wider than at subapical carina; apical and subapical carina v-shaped; median carina of vertex covering 1∕4–1∕2 of basal compartment of vertex; basal compartment 2.3–3.6× longer than apical compartment. Frons 1.2–1.5× longer than wide; frons just not visible or only just visible in dorsal view. Position of maximum width of frons more or less around centre of frontoclypeal suture or distinctly distad of frontoclypeal suture. Frontoclypeal suture slightly semicircular, bent upwards, median part not reaching lower margin of antennal scape. Rostrum reaching or slightly 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. Forewing 3.3–3.5× longer than wide; forewing with well-developed basal emargination; costa with about 20–25 tubercles, tubercles concolorous with veins; Sc+R+M near basal cell fused, forming a moderate-to-long (at least half of length of basal cell) common stem Sc+R+M; fork of ScRA+RP slightly distad of fork CuA1+CuA2; position of r-m basad 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 or basad of apex of clavus; position of icu at CuP more or less at same level or slightly distant of apex of clavus; RP apically trifid or quadrifid; 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; 10–11 apical cells. Hind leg: 1st tarsomere with 7 (sometimes 6 or 8) apical teeth; 2nd tarsomere with 7 (sometimes 6 or 8) apical teeth. Male genitalia: Anal tube asymmetrical in dorsal and caudal view; left lateral lobe subrectangular (slightly widening towards apex), right lateral lobe subtriangular (narrowing towards apex) in lateral view. Ventromedian process of pygofer trapezoid, margin darkened. Aedeagus: Phallotheca ventrally with a large spine, branched three or more times. Flagellum sclerotised, with two large spines apically, one of which is strongly curved (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] [416–417]

 

History of changes

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