Species Orphninus mouldsi Emeljanov, 2000

Orphninus mouldsi Emeljanov, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Orphninus mouldsi Emeljanov, A.F. 2000. New genera of the family Cixiidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) from Australia and neighbouring Territories. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 79(1): 12-34 [25].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll.: 21.xii.1987, M.S. & B.J. Moulds), 10 km S of Saint Lawrence turnoff, Waverley Range, Queensland.

  Secondary source:

   Emeljanov, A.F. 2000. New genera of the Family Cixiidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) from Australia and neighboring Territories. [translation]. Entomological Review (English translation of Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie) 80(3): 251-270 [264].

Introduction

This species is found in eastern Australia between SE Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It is distinctive in both colour and head shape.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex dark brown to black, lateral carinae yellow, median carina mid brown; frons dark brown to black, lateral carinae yellow; clypeus and genae dark brown; lateral parts of head yellow to orange; pronotum yellow; mesonotum dark brown to black; legs yellow, apical teeth on hind tibia and 1st tarsomere brown; forewing hyaline white with yellow and brown areas, veins and tubercles concolorous with cells; abdominal sternites dark brown to black, intersegmental membranes yellow. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 6.2–6.3 mm; ♀ 6.3–7.5 mm. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca fimbriate below midlength and with a long, moderately curved spine arising laterally near apex; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

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 [78]

General 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 [77]

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