Species Leptolamia sonjae Löcker, 2014

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• Leptolamia sonjae 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] [421].
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  Type data:

   Holotype QM T183313 ♂ (coll: Storey & Titmarsh, 10.xi–26.xii.1983, malaise trap), Windsor Tableland, via Mt Carbine, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This dark brown species is known from numerous specimens 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

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore

 

Diagnosis

Colour. Head and thorax uniformly light to mid brown; legs slightly paler. Forewing hyaline colourless with some darker patches or hyaline light brown; darker marks on clavus, apical margin of forewing and along crossveins; pterostigma light, mid or dark brown. Abdominal sternites dark brown; pygofer paler. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 4.8–5.1 mm, ♀ 5.3–5.9 mm. Head: Vertex 1.5–2.0× wider than long; at level of basal emargination 1.0–1.2× wider than at subapical carina; apical carina v-shaped, subapical carina u- or v-shaped; median carina of vertex absent or incomplete (covering up to 1∕2 of basal compartment of vertex); basal compartment of vertex 1.1–2.2× longer than apical compartment. Frons 1.0–1.3× as long as wide; frons clearly visible in dorsal view. Position of maximum width of frons distinctly distad of centre of frontoclypeal suture. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, bent upwards. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae; apical segment of rostrum almost as long or distinctly shorter than subapical segment. Thorax: Pronotum about same width or slightly wider than head (including eyes). Hind margin of pronotum acutely angled or rectangular. Forewing 3.5–3.6× longer than wide; forewing with well-developed basal emargination; costa with about 36–43 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 to moderately basad of fork CuA1+CuA2; position of r-m distinctly basad 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 or distant of apex of clavus; RP apically trifid; MAapically trifid; additional subapical cell between branches of MA present; 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 asymmetrical (lobes differ in length) in dorsal and caudal view; lateral lobe triangular in lateral view. Ventromedian process of pygofer trapezoid, with two dark teeth inserting dorsally. Aedeagus: Phallotheca ventrally with a sheet-like ridge bearing a pair of flattened spines. Flagellum with two sclerotised spines (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] [422]

 

History of changes

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