Species Metaplacha tobiasi Emeljanov, 2000

Metaplacha tobiasi Emeljanov, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Metaplacha tobiasi Emeljanov, A.F. 2000. New genera of the family Cixiidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) from Australia and neighbouring Territories. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 79(1): 12-34 [21].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 17.iv.1978, V. Tobias), Conargo, New South Wales.

  Secondary source:

   Emeljanov, A.F. 2000. New genera of the Family Cixiidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) from Australia and neighboring Territories. [translation]. Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 80(3): 251-270 [261]; 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].

Introduction

This attractively marked small species with relatively short stubby wings has been collected at two sites in inland New South Wales. No information is available on its habitat or host plants.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

The short forewing and the bright, yellow or orange carinae contrasting with the dark background on head and thorax, are distinctive for this species.

Colour. Vertex dark brown, median carina orange, lateral carinae white to yellow; face dark brown with yellow to orange carinae, except for mid brown lateral carinae on postclypeus; pronotum yellow medially with white carinae, dark brown laterally with orange and yellow hind border; mesonotum dark brown, with carinae, hind border and caudal part orange; legs yellow to mid brown; forewing milky white with light to mid brown marks, veins light brown, tubercles mid brown; abdominal sternites dark brown, intersegmental membranes yellow. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 2.6–2.8 mm; ♀ 3.0–3.1 mm. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long, strongly curved robust spine arising ventrally above midlength, and a long sinuate thick spine arising ventrally near apex; 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 [123]

General 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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