Genus Lipsia Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lipsia Löcker, B. & Fletcher, M.J. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [119].

  Type species:

   Lipsia mystrostylus Löcker & Fletcher, 2006 by original designation.

Introduction

A monotypic genus found on the eastern coastal fringe of mainland Australia from Rockhampton, Queensland, to Brookfield on the North Coast of New South Wales. The genus name is derived from the first author’s sister Ingrid Lips.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Morphology. Head. Vertex 0.7–1.0× as long as wide, produced before eyes by 1/2–3/4 of an eye length; apex broadly truncate; caudal border u-shaped; lateral carinae strongly elevated; median carina incomplete, 1/4× as long as vertex. Frons 1.5–1.9× longer than wide, position of maximum width about centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae convex (although rectilinear apically) or slightly s-shaped, strongly elevated; median carina absent. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, median part almost reaching lower margin of antennal scape; postclypeus with well developed lateral carinae and median carina; anteclypeus with well developed median carina. Thorax. Pronotum with arched, or slightly undulating carinae; hind margin right or obtusely angled. Forewing 3.0–3.5× longer than wide; costa with 14–20 tubercles; concavity at costal border absent or present; Sc+R+M forming common stem; fork of Sc+R basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 basad of or at same level as fork MA–MP; position of icu at CuP distad of or at same level as apex of clavus, 10 (rarely 11–12) apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 0–3 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); six apical teeth in a row interrupted by a wide gap; 1st tarsomere with 7–11 apical teeth and 2–3 platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 9–10 apical teeth and 7–8 platellae. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J., Löcker, B., Larivière, M.C. and Löcker, H. (2006). Illustrated Key to the Australian Genera of the Planthopper Tribe Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae: Fulgoromorpha) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/cixiid/gelastocephalini/gel00.htm

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [119]

History of changes