Species Wernindia rhomboidea Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Wernindia rhomboidea Löcker & Fletcher, holotype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Wernindia rhomboidea 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 QM T123588 ♂ (coll: G. & A. Daniels, 1.v.1987 [locality published as Dadly, not Dalby]; originally from UQIC), Lake Broadwater, near Dalby, Queensland [27°21'S 151°06'E].

Introduction

This nicely marked species is known from a single male specimen collected at Lake Broadwater, near Dalby in inland SE Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Vertex mid brown except for whitish mark on each side, lateral carinae yellow to brown; face and lateral carinae of postclypeus mid brown, other carinae yellow; pronotum mostly yellow with some brown; mesonotum dark brown with light brown carinae; legs yellow to brown; forewing hyaline white with numerous brown marks, veins whitish yellow, tubercles dark brown; abdominal sternites mid brown, intersegmental membranes yellowish orange. Morphology . Body length. ♂ 4.4 mm. Head. Vertex 0.8× as long as wide, produced before eyes by less than 1/4 of an eye length; lateral carinae strongly elevated; median carina incomplete, less than 1/4 as long as vertex. Frons distinctly widening at the level of the frontoclypeal suture (maximum width around centre of frontoclypeal suture); lateral carinae slightly sinuate, slightly elevated; median carina incomplete, 1/4–1/3 as long as frons. Postclypeus with well developed lateral carinae and evanescent median carina; anteclypeus with evanescent median carina. Thorax. Pronotum with sinuate carinae; hind margin obtusely angled. Forewing more than 4× longer than wide; costa with 12–15 tubercles; concavity at costal border present; Sc+R+M forming a short common stem; fork of Sc+R basad of fork of CuA1+CuA2; r–m1 distad of fork MA–MP; position of icu at CuP at same level as apex of clavus; nine apical cells. Hind leg: tibia with one small lateral spine (without large lateral spines); six apical teeth in a row interrupted by a very narrow gap; 1st tarsomere with 8–9 apical teeth and no platellae. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a long rather thick, strongly curved, apically sinuate spine arising left lateral near apex and a rather thick, short, slightly curved spine ventrally 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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