Species Rokebia australis Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Rokebia australis Löcker & Fletcher, holotype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Rokebia australis 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 [133].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll: P. Zborowski & M. Shaw, 17.xii.1993-17.i.1994, malaise trap), 2km N of Rokeby, North Queensland [13°39'S 142°40'E].

Introduction

A small brown species based on a single adult male specimen.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body yellow; forewing hyaline yellow with concolorous veins and tubercles; abdominal sternites mid brown, intersegmental membranes yellow. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 3.6 mm. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long spine arising ventrolaterally near apex and a sheet-like ventral ridge bearing a pair of slightly curved spines near base; 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 [133]

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