Species Loisobrachys convexa Constant, 2008

Museums

Regional Maps

• Loisobrachys convexa Constant, J. 2008. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XIV) The new Australian genus Loisobrachys (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58(4): 755–759 [758].

  Type data:

   Holotype IRSNB ♀, Rockhampton, Queensland.

 

Introduction

The single known specimen of this species was collected in Rockhampton, probably more than 60 years ago. Although the label data provide no indication of date, they include the code 17.865 which the author of the species has interpreted as the collection code referring to material sold to the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences in Belgium by Dr Victor Lallemand who published on Australian Fulgoromorpha from the 1920s to the 1060s.. Nothing is known of the biology of the species.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

LT: ♀ (n = 1): 8.6 mm. Head: yellowish with clypeus, labium and antennae brown; ratio BV/LV = 3.0; BF/LF = 2.0. Thorax: pro- and mesonotum yellowish brown; brownish ventrally with metasternum red; ratio LP+LM/BT = 0.79; LM/LP = 3.0. Tegmina: pale brown, slightly paler apically, marked with spots of white waxy secretion; median transverse band of white waxy secretion; ratio LTg/BTg = 2.3. Hind wings: brown with anal area slightly paler. Legs: all legs yellowish brown. Abdomen: bright red with genitalia brownish (♀) (Constant 2008).

 

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2008. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XIV) The new Australian genus Loisobrachys (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58(4): 755–759 [758]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862	07-May-2020	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher