Species Nesochlamys jubatus Löcker, 2010
Compiler and date details
27 July 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Nesochlamys jubatus Löcker, B. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa 2425: 1-31 [22].
Type data:
Holotype QM T.156367 ♂ (coll: 1–7.xi.1981, Earthwatch), Bellenden Ker Range, Queensland, summit TV station, 1560 m[etres].
Introduction
Based on a single male specimen collected as part of an Earthwatch altitudinal survey of Mt Bellenden Ker, North Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: phloem feeder.
Extra Ecological Information
Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.
Diagnosis
Colour. Vertex light brown near basal emargination, dark brown apically. Face mid brown, carinae concolorous, except for pale lateral carinae of frons. Pronotum light brown, mesonotum dark brown. Forewings hyaline, colourless with some light to mid brown patches; veins and tubercles concolorous with cells; apical parts of veins near pterostigma darkened; pterostigma light brown. Legs light brown, femora slightly darker. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 3.7 mm. Head: Vertex 0.7 times as wide as long; with median carina covering about 1/2 of length of vertex. Frons 1.4 times longer than wide. Thorax: Forewing 3.3 times longer than wide; with 19 tubercles on costa; Sc+R forking basad of fork CuA1+CuA2; RP apically trifid; apical cells 10. Hind leg: 1st and 2nd tarsomere with 6 apical teeth. Male genitalia: Anal tube in dorsal view very wide apically, tapering towards base. Genital styles apically with numerous fine setae, some grouped together to form dense bunch of setae pointing dorsocephalad. Ventromedian process of pygofer trapezoid. Aedeagus: phallotheca left laterally with rounded, bifurcated spine, inserted near apex of aedeagus and flattened, caudally directed, spine-like structure, inserted near base of aedeagus. Flagellum without spines.
Remarks. This species differs from the other Australian species of Nesochlamys by the presence of a flattened, caudally directed, spine-like structure, inserted near the base of the aedeagus. (Löcker et.al. 2010)
ID Keys
Löcker et.al. (2010: 20)
Diagnosis References
Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J. & Gurr, G.M. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Australian Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa (2425): 1-31 [22]
History of changes
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27-Aug-2010 | ADDED |