Species Miclucha laratensis (Muir, 1924)

Miclucha laratensis (Muir), adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliarus laratensis Muir, F. 1924. New Malayan species of Oliarus Stål (Cixiidae: Homoptera). Philippine Journal of Science 24: 509-529 [526].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂, Larat, Indonesia.

Generic Combinations

• Miclucha laratensis (Muir, 1924). —
  Emeljanov, A.F. 2001. The genus Oliarus s. str. and related genera from the Oriental Region (Homoptera: Cixiidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 10(1): 71-72 [72]

Introduction

This species was originally described from Larat Island in eastern Indonesia but was subsequently found to be well represented on Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. A single female specimen from Kununurra in Western Australia indicates that its distribution might be quite widespread across the northern tropical regions of Australia.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex mid to dark brown, carinae paler; face light brown or pale yellow, frons lateral with an indistinct light brown mark; pronotum light brown or pale yellow; mesonotum light to mid brown; legs light brown; forewing hyaline colourless, brown marks along crossveins and on apex of wing, veins mid brown, tubercles indistinct, concolorous with veins; pterostigma mid brown; abdominal sternites light brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 8.9 mm, ♀ 8.2–9.9 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 3.0 times longer than wide; basal emargination acutely angled. Postclypeus with well-developed median carina. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with all carinae evanescent or well-developed. Forewing 3.1 times longer than wide; costa with 0–4 tubercles; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 4–5 lateral spines; 5 large and 1 very small apical tooth; 1st and 2nd tarsomere with 9 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; a long, thick spine ventral; and a very short spine arising from base of ventral spine; all spines pointing upwards (caudad). Flagellum membranous to slightly 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]

History of changes