Species Lipsia mystrostylus Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Lipsia mystrostylus Löcker & Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Lipsia mystrostylus 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 [120].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123602 ♂ (coll: H. Hacker, 10.x.1926), Brookfield, New South Wales.

Introduction

A single species recorded from Rockhampton in Queensland to Brookfield in New South Wales. The name refers to the diagnostic spoon-shaped genital styles of the male.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex yellow, central part mid brown; face yellow, clypeus usually slightly darker; pronotum yellow to light brown; mesonotum mid brown, lateral parts darker; legs yellow to brown; forewing hyaline white with light brown and mid brown areas, veins light brown, tubercles dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown, intersegmental membranes yellow to orange. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 6.1–6.8 mm; ♀ 6.6–7.3 mm. Male genitalia. genital styles narrowly spoon-shaped. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long, sinuate spine arising ventrolaterally near apex and a very short spine ventrally below midlength; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

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 [120]

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