Species Miclucha australiensis Löcker, 2006

Miclucha australiensis Löcker, holotype male

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Miclucha australiensis Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [16].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (Coll: 26.v.1973, Upton & McInnes), 9 km N by E of Mudginbarry Homestead, Northern Territory [12°31'S 132°54'E].

Introduction

A small yellow brown species based on a single male from the Northern Territory.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Plateau (ARP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex dark brown, carinae light brown; face light to mid brown, carinae light brown; pronotum light brown, carinae paler; mesonotum mid brown, carinae paler; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless with brown marks along crossveins and apices of apical veins, veins light to mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown; abdominal sternites mid to dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.3 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 3.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with well-developed median and sublateral carinae and evanescent to well-developed lateral carinae. Forewing 3.5 times longer than wide; costa with 9 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 3 lateral spines; 6 large apical teeth; 1st tarsomere with 8–9 apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 7 apical teeth and no platellae. Male genitalia: pygophore and genital styles with long, slender, sclerotised, dorsal process. Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a moderately curved spine; a slightly curved spine; an almost straight spine; and a very long, strongly curved spine; phallotheca ventrally with 3 sheetlike ridges. Flagellum sclerotised, unarmed. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2006: 15

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [16]

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