Species Novotarberus flagellospinosus Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Novotarberus flagellospinosus Löcker & Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Novotarberus flagellospinosus 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 [126].

  Type data:

   Holotype WADA 15698 ♂ (coll: K.T. Richards, 29.viii.1969), North Gingin, Western Australia.

Introduction

A dark brown species with distinctive markings on the narrow tegmina. It has been found in SW Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Head dark brown with light brown carinae; pronotum dark brown, paler medially and on carinae; mesonotum dark brown to black; legs light to dark brown; forewing hyaline grey with yellow and brown marks, veins concolorous with cells, tubercles dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown to black, intersegmental membranes orange. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 3.6–4.1 mm; ♀ 4.1–4.9 mm. Head. Vertex 1.0–1.2× as long as wide, produced before eyes by 1/2–3/4 of an eye length; apex broadly truncate; caudal border u-shaped; median carina less than 1/4 as long as vertex. Frons 1.5–1.9× longer than wide; lateral carinae s-shaped, strongly elevated. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, median part reaching at least lower margin of antennal scape. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum right or acutely angled. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide, widest part half way between base of wing and apex of clavus, decreasing in width over apical third (Fig. 12B); costa with 21–25 tubercles; fork of Sc+R distinctly basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 basad of fork of MA–MP; position of icu at CuP distad of apex of clavus; nine apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 3–4 very small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 1st tarsomere with 9–11 apical teeth and 3–4 platellae; 2nd tarsomere with nine apical teeth and seven platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long strongly curved spine arising right lateral near apex; flagellum with short, curved spine near apex.
Remarks. Novotarberus flagellospinosus is the only species in this genus bearing a spine on the flagellum, all other species in this genus lack spines on the flagellum. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 125)

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 [126]

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