Species Miclucha incerta (Distant, 1907)

Miclucha incerta (Distant), adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Oliarus incerta Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xlii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 395-416 [415] [replacement name].
• Oliarus lubra Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal Notes. xli. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 19: 277-295 [282] [junior homonym; preoccupied by Oliarus lubra Kirkaldy, 1906].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Peak Downs, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [19].
• Oliarus hackeri Muir, F. 1931. Descriptions and records of Fulgoroidea from Australia and the South Pacific Islands. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(2): 63-83 [65].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll: 5.viii.1913, H. Hacker), Brisbane, Queensland.
• Oliarus morobensis Van Stalle, J. 1989. The Pentastirini of New Guinea, a review and descriptions of five new species (Homoptera: Cixiidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 59: 173-182 [174].

  Type data:

   Holotype IRSNB ♂ (coll: 20.v.1988), Bulolo, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [19] (synonymy of Oliarus hackeri Muir and Oliarus morobensis Van Stalle)

Generic Combinations

• Miclucha incerta (Distant, 1907). —
  Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [17]

Introduction

This is a very common and widespread species across northern Australia from Derby in Western Australia to Brisbane in Queensland.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex dark brown to black, carinae paler; face dark brown, frons lateral with a large pale mark, carinae light brown; pronotum light brown or pale yellow; mesonotum dark brown, mid brown between lateral and sublateral carinae; legs light brown to mid brown; forewing hyaline colourless, brown marks along crossveins and on apex of wing, veins mid to dark brown, tubercles indistinct, concolorous with veins; pterostigma mid or dark brown; abdominal sternites light brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 6.9–8.9 mm, ♀ 7.7–8.9 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 2.0–2.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled or rectangular. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent or well-developed carinae. Forewing 3.0–3.2 times longer than wide; costa with 0–12 tubercles; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 4 (rarely 3) lateral spines; 5 large and 1 very small apical tooth; 1st and 2nd tarsomere with 8 (rarely 7) apical teeth and no platellae. Male genitalia: pygophore and genital styles with long, slender, sclerotised, dorsal process. Aedeagus: Phallotheca with a long, strongly curved spine left lateral pointing upwards; a long, flattened spine pointing upwards; and a long spine ventral pointing cephalad. Flagellum membranous with sclerotised ridge, 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 [19]

History of changes