Species Melanoclypeus cristatus Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Melanoclypeus cristatus Löcker & Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Melanoclypeus cristatus 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 [122].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K113774 ♂ (coll: F. Christie & M. Elliott, 13.xii.1999, ex Eucalyptus largiflorens, DRRP131/03Bt, beating), 500m towards "Caloola" Stn, from Gwydir Highway turnoff [29°46'38"S 148°18'26"E].

Introduction

This species is based on two specimens from inland New South Wales, one collected at light and the other by beating foliage of Eucalyptus largiflorens F. Muell. (Myrtaceae), the black box. This might be a host of the species.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length. ♂ 4.0 mm. Head. Postclypeus with evanescent lateral carinae. Thorax. Pronotum with undulating or sinuate carinae. Costa of forewing with ~20 tubercles; fork of Sc+R at same level as fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 distad of fork MA–MP; nine apical cells. Hind leg: tibia without lateral spines. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a very long, slightly curved spine arising ventrally above midlength, a very long strongly curved spine arising right lateral near apex and a large shield-like sclerotised ridge ventrally; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 122)

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 [122]

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