Species Ronaldia emeljanovi Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Ronaldia emeljanovi Löcker & Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ronaldia emeljanovi 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 [135].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA 121677 ♂ (coll: R.V. Southcott, 7.xii.1958, beating Callitris propinqua), Tea Tree Gully, South Australia.

Introduction

A small species with uniformly testaceous wings and head contrasting with a black mesonotum. One specimen, the holotype, was collected by beating foliage of Callitris propinqua R. Br. ex R. Baker & H. G. Smith, which is a synonym of C. gracilis R. T. Baker subsp. murrayensis (J. Garden) K. D. Hill (Cupressaceae). The name honours Alexandr Emeljanov, Russian Auchenorrhyncha specialist.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Forewing hyaline yellow, veins and tubercles concolorous with cells. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 4.1–4.6 mm. Head. Median carina of vertex incomplete, 1/4–1/2 as long as vertex. Position of maximum width of frons distinctly ventrad of centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae convex (evenly rounded). Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum rectangular. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide; costa with 14–16 tubercles; fork of Sc+R basad, distad of or at same level as fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP distad of apex of clavus; 10–11 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 0–1 small lateral spine (without large lateral spines); seven apical teeth in a row interrupted by a narrow gap; 1st tarsomere with 7(–8) apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 7–8 apical teeth and 5–6 platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a straight spine, turned 90° in apical third, arising left laterally above midlength and a foliaceous ventral ridge forming long spine-like process with a large base; flagellum lacking spines. (Löcker et al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et al. 2006: 135

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 [135]

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