Species Payastylus kernae Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Payastylus kernae Löcker & Fletcher, holotype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

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• Payastylus kernae 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 ANIC ♂ (coll: Z. Liepa, 24.ix.1972), 6km N by W of Mt Sarah HS, N. of Oodnadatta, South Australia.

Introduction

This small pale brown species is based on a single male specimen collected at Mt Sarah homestead, N of Oodnadatta in northern South Australia. It is named in honour of the first author’s grandmother Maria Kern.

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Stony Plains (STP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex mid brown, median carina orange-brown; face mid brown, carinae yellow to orange except for brown lateral carinae on postclypeus; pronotum orange, with carinae and hind border yellow; mesonotum orange, with central part mid brown; legs yellow to brown; forewing hyaline white to yellow with yellow veins and light brown tubercles. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 4.1 mm. Head. Vertex 0.9× as long as wide; apex broadly rounded; lateral carinae moderately elevated; median carina incomplete, ~3/4 as long as vertex. Lateral carinae of frons convex (although rectilinear apically). Thorax. Pronotum with arched 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 basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 distad of fork MA–MP; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 1–4 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); five apical teeth in row interrupted by a wide gap; 1st tarsomere with six apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with eight apical teeth and six platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long slightly sinuate spine arising ventrally and a short, basally thickened spine arising left laterally near apex; 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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