Species Novotarberus remanei Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Novotarberus remanei Löcker & Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Novotarberus remanei 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 [128].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: H.M. Cane, 5.xii.1950), Mt Gingera, Australian Capital Territory.

Introduction

This small dark species with bold brown markings on the tegmen is found in the SE part of mainland Australia. The name honours Reinhard Remane, an entomological mentor for a generation of European Auchenorrhyncha workers.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Head mid to dark brown, carinae light brown except for dark brown lateral carinae on postclypeus; pronotum mid brown, central carinae paler; mesonotum mid to dark brown, carinae sometimes paler; legs light to dark brown; forewing hyaline whitish with large light to dark brown areas, veins concolorous with cells, tubercles dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown, intersegmental membranes orange. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 4.0–4.5 mm; ♀ 4.4–4.7 mm. Head. Vertex 1.1–1.3× longer than wide, produced before eyes by 1/2–3/4 of an eye length; apex broadly truncate; caudal border u-shaped; median carina ~1/4 as long as vertex. Frons 1.1–1.5× 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 acutely angled. Forewing less than 3× longer than wide, distinctly decreasing in width in their basal third; costa with 16–27 tubercles; fork of Sc+R distinctly basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 basad, distad of or at same level as fork of MA–MP; position of icu at CuP distad apex of clavus; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 0–3 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 1st tarsomere with 10 apical teeth and four platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 9–10 apical teeth and 7–8 platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long strongly curved spine arising right lateral near apex and a second short, slightly curved spine ventrally below midlength; 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 [128]

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