Species Ronaldia fennahi Emeljanov, 2000

Ronaldia fennahi Emeljanov, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ronaldia fennahi 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 [22].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 3-10.xii.1990, A. Kirejtschuk), Black Mountain, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

  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 [261].

Introduction

This is darker in colour than R. emeljanovi, particularly in the colour of the tegmen which is mainly brown in this species. The name honours the late R.G. Fennah, planthopper taxonomist who described a significant proportion of the world's planthopper species.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT: 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 or brown with concolorous veins and tubercles, and pale yellowish area along costa. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 3.9–4.6 mm. Head. Median carina of vertex incomplete, 1/2–3/4 as long as vertex. Position of maximum width of frons around centre or distinctly ventrad of centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae convex (evenly rounded or rectilinear apically). Thorax. Hind margin of pronotum right or obtusely angled. Forewing 3.0–3.5× longer than wide; costa with 15–20 tubercles; fork of Sc+R basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; position of icu at CuP distad of or at same level as apex of clavus; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 0–3 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); 6–7 apical teeth in row interrupted by narrow gap; 1st tarsomere with seven apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with seven (sometimes 8–10) apical teeth and five (sometimes 6–8) platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a sinuate spine, arising left lateral above midlength and a foliaceous ventral ridge forming long spine-like process with a small base; flagellum with two apical 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]

General 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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