Species Liorhina loxosema (Hacker, 1926)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clovia loxosema Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [243].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM ♀ (coll.: xii.1921, Hacker), National Park, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) QM 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (coll.: xii.1923, Hacker; mounted on same card), National Park, Queensland; QM 2 ♀ (coll.: xii.1921, Hacker), National Park, Queensland; QM 7 ♀ (coll.: xii.1923, Hacker), National Park, Queensland; QM ♀ (coll.: i.1926, H. Hacker), Tooloom, New South Wales; QM ♂ (coll.: 19.xi.1925, H. Hacker), Tamborine Mountain, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [87].

 

Generic Combinations

• Liorhina loxosema (Hacker, 1926). —
  Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Clovia loxasema Hacker, 1926. —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [319] (subsequent misspelling)

 

Introduction

This beautifully marked species is not well represented in collections. It appears to be restricted to wet forest areas.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Female. Head twice as wide as long, triangular, rounded apically, almost flat dorsally, finely punctate; pronotum anteriorly finely punctate, posteriorly more coarsely punctate-striate; scutellum finely punctate-striate; frons pitted down the centre, becoming smooth towards clypeus; clypeus pyriform, convex, smooth centrally; tegmina finely punctate. Head, pronotum and scutellum luteous; the head has three transverse brown stripes — the first following the outline of vertex, strongly arched, median and basal stripes less curved; the pronotum has four transverse stripes — the first slightly convex, the second straight, the third concavely curved, the fourth widened angularly at each side on the posterior border; ventral surface luteous, base and apex of frons blackish brown, with about seven brown oblique stripes on each side; clypeus black; rostrum flavescent, apex fuscous, extending to the mesocoxae; tegmina fuscous, lighter apically; a broad pale stripe from costa before middle extends obliquely across corium and clavus, terminating near base; a curved pale stripe extends from just beyond middle of costal margin to apex of tegmen; another pale stripe runs parallel to the first menioned, from the middle of corium to the posterior margin of clavus; the cubital and anal veins after passing this stripe continue pale; all light parts on tegmina more of less suffused with scarlet vermilion, which is brightest on the first-mentioned oblique stripe; legs fulvous, posterior pair flavescent. Length 13 mm., exp. 17 mm.
Male. Tegmina uniformly fuscous, with all the above-mentioned pale markings bright scarlet vermilion; frons, excepting the extremities, luteous; oblique ridges concolorous. (Hacker 1926)

Length, male, 7 mm. female, 9-9.5 mm. Face of head centrally brownish-yellow, muscle impressions, laterally brown. Crown and pronotum brownish-yellow each with three transverse brown bands. Tegmen yellowish-brown with two oblique, narrow pinkish fasciae, in part, or completely margined with dark brown areas; veins, in part, pinkish. (Evans 1966)

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [319]

Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [243]

 

History of changes

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