Species Mnemosyne comata Löcker, 2006

Mnemosyne comata Löcker, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mnemosyne comata Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. First record of the planthopper tribe Mnemosynini in Australia with the description of two new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Russian Entomological Journal 15(3): 287-294 [290].

  Type data:

   Holotype MMUS ♂, Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

A caramel-brown species covered with erect setae. It is based on a male and two female specimens from Cairns, in the wet tropics of North Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body light to mid brown; forewing hyaline, colourless with only a few dark brown marks, veins light to mid brown, tubercles concolorous with veins; pterostigma light to dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown. Morphology. Forewing and face bearing long setae (length more than 1/3 of eye diameter), remainder of body covered with very short setae (length less than 1/4 of eye diameter). Head. Vertex (median length) 1.1 x longer than wide; subapical transverse carina forking from lateral margin at about 5/6 of total length of vertex. Frons 1.1 x longer than wide; maximum width 3.4 x apical width; median carina present throughout frons, indistinct, slightly elevated, concolorous with disc, apically forking into three branches (Fig. 6); indistinct transverse carina in apical portion of frons visible; lateral carinae convex (rectilinear apically) to s-shaped, slightly extending laterally, concealing only base of pedicellus; median ocellus present, more or less distinct, separated from frontoclypeal suture by at least its own diameter. Thorax. Forewing 2.6 x longer than wide; r-m1 distinctly basad of fork MA+MP; costa with 19–22 tubercles; costal margin near base distinctly thickened. Hind leg: tibia with small or large gap (at least as wide as base of third tooth from the external side) in row of apical teeth. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca without any spines; flagellum apically pointed, with very long, slender spine running backwards parallel to flagellum ending near apex of phallotheca and shorter spine extending slightly further than apex of flagellum. Body length. ♂ 5.3 mm, ♀ 6.1–7.4 mm. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 290)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. First record of the planthopper tribe Mnemosynini in Australia with the description of two new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Russian Entomological Journal 15(3): 287-294 [290]

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