Species Rhigedanus fomibundus Emeljanov, 2000

Rhigedanus fomibundus Emeljanov, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Rhigedanus fomibundus 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 [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: xi.1921, A. Musgrave), 'Calumet', 25 m[iles] NE of Binnaway, New South Wales.

  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 [269].

Introduction

A large (up to 7.5mm) dark species found in inland New South Wales and the jarrah forest region of SE Western Australia.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, WA: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex yellow, central part mid brown, anterior part dark brown with mid brown transverse carina; frons light brown with brown area near frontoclypeal suture, lateral carinae light brown; clypeus mid to dark brown, median carina paler; pronotum yellow in caudal part, dark brown in basal part; mesonotum dark brown, carinae paler; legs light to mid brown; forewing hyaline white to yellowish with scattered brown marks, apex sometimes darker, veins and tubercles light to dark brown; abdominal sternites dark brown to black, intersegmental membranes yellow. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 6.1–7.5 mm. Head. Vertex produced before eyes by 3/4–1× eye length; lateral carinae strongly elevated. Frons 1.5–1.9× longer than wide. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, median part reaching at least lower margin of antennal scape; anteclypeus with well developed or evanescent median carina. Thorax. Costa with 0–6 tubercles; fork of Sc+R basad or distad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; 10–11 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 1–2 large lateral spines (unequal in length); 1st tarsomere with 7(–8) apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 18–30 apical teeth and 16–28 platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a short (about half the length of flagellum), straight spine arising left laterally above midlength; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 81)

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 [82]

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