Species Payastylus brichrius Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Payastylus brichrius Löcker & Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Payastylus brichrius 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 [131].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE025801 ♂ (coll: M.J. Fletcher & J.S. Mann, 5.iv.1997), Griffith turnoff, 15km W of Rankins Springs, New South Wales.

Introduction

A plain brown species distributed in the inland areas of New South Wales with a single coastal record from SE Queensland. The name is derived from the names of the first author’s friends and colleagues Brigitte and Christian Komposch.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Head black, carinae yellow to orange except for black lateral carinae on postclypeus; pronotum light brown, with carinae and hind border yellow; mesonotum mid brown, central part black with mid brown carinae; legs straw coloured to brown; forewing hyaline yellow with concolorous veins and tubercles (except apically, light brown). Morphology. Body length. ♂ 4.0 mm; ♀ 4.7 mm. Head. Vertex 0.8× as long as wide; apex broadly truncate; lateral carinae s-shaped, strongly elevated; median carina incomplete, 1/4–1/2 as long as vertex. Lateral carinae of frons sinuate. Thorax. Pronotum with sinuate carinae; hind margin rectangular. Forewing 3.0–3.5× longer than wide; costa with 21–22 tubercles; Sc+R+M forming very short common stem or Sc+R forming common stem and M emerging separately from basal cell; fork of Sc+R distad of or at same level as fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 basad of fork MA–MP. Hind leg: tibia with three large lateral spines; six apical teeth in row interrupted by a wide gap; 1st tarsomere with 6–7 apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with nine apical teeth and seven platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a short, rather straight spine arising ventrally about midlength, a long twisted spine arising left laterally near apex and a long slightly curved spine dorsally above midlength; flagellum unarmed.
(Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 129)

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 [131]

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