Species Novotarberus pseudorphninus Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Novotarberus pseudorphninus Löcker & Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Novotarberus pseudorphninus 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 [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K133775 ♂ (coll: Cassis & Silveira, 30.v.1999, 694m), Rhodes Ridge Camp, Pilbara district, Western Australia [23°06'04.9"S 119°22'13.6E].

Introduction

This beautifully marked species is known from a series of specimens collected in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Pilbara (PIL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex yellow, with central part black; face black, lateral carinae of frons yellow; pronotum yellow to orange, sometimes with brown marks; mesonotum black; legs yellow to dark brown; forewing hyaline colourless, patterned with white, light brown and dark brown areas, veins mainly dark brown, apical cells margined with dark brown; tubercles mid to dark brown; abdominal sternites black, intersegmental membranes yellow to orange. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 3.9–4.2 mm; ♀ 4.3 mm. Head. Vertex very long and narrow, 1.8–2.1× longer than wide, produced before eyes by 1/2–3/4 of an eye length; apex narrowly rounded; caudal border v-shaped, sometimes slightly u-shaped; median carina less than 1/4 as long as vertex. Lateral carinae of frons s- or double s-shaped, strongly elevated. Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum rectangular. Forewing 3.0–3.5× longer than wide; costa with 10–16 tubercles; fork of Sc+R basad (almost at same level) as fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 distad of fork MA–MP; nine apical cells; position of icu at CuP at same level as apex of clavus. Hind leg: tibia without lateral spines; 1st tarsomere with 8–9 apical teeth and 1–3 platellae; 2nd tarsomere with nine apical teeth and seven platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long strongly curved spine arising right lateral, a second long, sinuate spine arising left laterally near apex and a spine-like ventral process at the base; flagellum lacking spines. (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 [127]

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