Species Wernindia bubalis Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Wernindia bubalis Löcker & Fletcher, adult

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Wernindia bubalis 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 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K113776 ♂ (coll: N. Geary, x.1933), Cunnamulla, Queensland.

Introduction

A nicely marked brown and black species from inland areas of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Mulga Lands (ML)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: sap-feeder.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex mid brown, lateral carinae yellow; face mid brown, median carina paler, lateral carinae on frons yellow; pronotum mid to dark brown, carinae yellow to brown, hind border of pronotum as well as lateral parts behind carinae yellow; mesonotum dark brownish black; legs straw coloured to brown; forewing hyaline white with scattered brown marks, a brown transverse band basad of pterostigma, and a large brown area apically, veins white to brown, tubercles dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown, intersegmental membranes yellow. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 3.7–4.1 mm. Head. Vertex 0.7–0.8× as long as wide, produced before eyes by 1/4–1/2 of an eye length; lateral carinae slightly to moderately elevated; median carina incomplete, ~1/2 as long as vertex. Frons with its maximum width distinctly ventrad of centre of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae convex (although rectilinear apically), slightly to moderately elevated; median carina absent. Postclypeus lacking lateral carinae, median carina evanescent; anteclypeus lacking carinae. Thorax. Pronotum with sinuate carinae; hind margin right or obtusely angled. Forewing 3.0–3.5× longer than wide; costa with 14–17 tubercles; concavity at costal border present; Sc+R+M forming long common stem; fork of Sc+R basad, at same level or distad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 distad of or at same level as fork MA–MP; position of icu at CuP basad of or at same level as apex of clavus; nine (rarely 10) apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 2–3 small lateral spines (without large lateral spines); six apical teeth in a row interrupted by a narrow gap; 1st tarsomere with nine apical teeth and five platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long, strongly curved, upwardly pointing spine arising ventrolaterally above midlength and a shorter slightly curved spine arising ventrolaterally about midlength; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

ID Keys

Löcker et.al. (2006: 140)

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 [140]

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