Genus Novotarberus Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Museums

Regional Maps

• Novotarberus Löcker, B. & Fletcher, M.J. in Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [125].

  Type species:

   Tarberus jacobii Muir, 1931 by original designation.

Introduction

The three species recorded in this genus for Australia are Bassian in distribution, but the type species is recorded only from New Caledonia. All the species are dark in colour with attractive markings on the tegmen.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Jarrah Forest (JF), Pilbara (PIL), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) ; WA: Warren (WAR)

Diagnosis

Morphology. Body length. ♂ 3.6–4.5 mm, ♀ 4.1–4.9 mm. Head. Vertex with lateral carinae strongly elevated. Frons with its maximum width distinctly ventrad of centre of frontoclypeal suture; median carina absent; postclypeus with well developed lateral carinae and median carina; anteclypeus with well developed median carina. Thorax. Pronotum with undulating or arched carinae. Concavity at costal border of forewing absent; Sc+R+M forming common stem. Hind tibia with six apical teeth in a row interrupted by a wide gap; 2nd tarsomere typically with nine apical teeth and seven platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with long strongly curved spine arising right laterally near apex and. Spine arising left laterally near apex long, sinuate or rudimentary, occasionally absent. Spine (c) present or absent.
Remarks. All species share a long strongly curved spine right lateral on the phallotheca (additional spines on the phallotheca are present in some species), the shape of the anal tube in dorsal view and the absence of a median carina on the frons. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J., Löcker, B., Larivière, M.C. and Löcker, H. (2006). Illustrated Key to the Australian Genera of the Planthopper Tribe Gelastocephalini  (Hemiptera: Cixiidae: Fulgoromorpha) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/cixiid/gelastocephalini/gel00.htm

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C., Gurr, G.M., Holzinger, W.E. & Löcker, H. 2006. Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the Gelastocephalini (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20: 59-160 [125]

History of changes