Species Rhigedanus maculipennis Emeljanov, 2000
Compiler and date details
26 August 2010 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Rhigedanus maculipennis 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 ASCU ♂ (coll.: 3.x.1977, F.H. Uther Baker, ex J.W. Evans collection, donated 1986), 70 km E of Balladonia, Western Australia.
Introduction
A large (up to 7.8mm) dark brown species which can only be differentiated from the type species by examination of the male genitalia.
Distribution
States
South Australia, Western Australia
IBRA
SA, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Hampton (HAM), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: phloem feeder.
Extra Ecological Information
Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.
Diagnosis
Colour. Vertex mid to dark brown, lateral carinae basally light brown apically dark brown, transverse carina yellow; frons dark brown with black area near the frontoclypeal suture, lateral carinae mid brown; clypeus dark brown, median carina paler; pronotum mid to dark brown; mesonotum dark brown to black; legs light to dark brown; forewing hyaline white to yellowish with brown marks, veins and tubercles dark brown; abdominal sternites mid to dark brown to black, intersegmental membranes yellow. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 6.9–7.8 mm. Head. Vertex produced before eyes by more than 1× eye length; lateral carinae moderately to strongly elevated. Frons 1.9–2.3× longer than wide. Frontoclypeal suture semicircular, median part not or just reaching lower margin of antennal scape; anteclypeus with well developed median carina. Thorax. Costa without tubercles; fork of Sc+R distad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; 9–11 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with two large lateral spines (unequal in length); 1st tarsomere with 6–7 apical teeth; 2nd tarsomere with 14–19 apical teeth and 12–17 platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long (about same length as flagellum), almost straight spine arising left laterally near apex; 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]
History of changes
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