Species Melanoclypeus uncinatus Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Melanoclypeus uncinatus Löcker & Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Melanoclypeus uncinatus 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 [123].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123601 ♂ (coll: QM party, 1.xii.2003-2.i.2004, pitfall 51801, 140m, spotted gum open forest), Gold Creek Reservoir, Queensland [27°27.9'S 152°52.5'E].

Introduction

This species, which has attractive markings on the tegmina, is known from only two males collected in quite separate parts of Queensland, one in the SE corner and one from Cape York Peninsula in far North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length. ♂ 3.4–3.6 mm. Head. Lateral margins of frons sometimes foliaceous, concealing base of antennae. Postclypeus with well developed lateral carinae. Thorax. Pronotum with arched carinae. Costa of forewing with 16–17 tubercles; fork of Sc+R basad of or at same level as fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 basad, at same level or distad of fork MA–MP; 9–10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with two small lateral spines (without large lateral spines). Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a single, short, slightly sclerotised spine ventrally near apex, a ventral ridge forming foliaceous hook-shaped process above midlength and another ventral ridge with a spine-like process extending from its basal corner; 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 [123]

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