Species Yamirrina concolor Löcker, 2020

Museums

Regional Maps

• Yamirrina concolor Löcker, B. 2020. Revision of Leades Jacobi with the description of a new genus, Yamirrina gen. nov., and notes on the absence of Iolania Kirkaldy from Australia (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae: Cixiini). Journal of Insect Biodiversity 18(1): 17–49 [36].
  Zoobank Registration Number:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7A3C6D48-1AF7-46C9-B1B2-2C548691127C

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T245909 ♂ (coll: xii.1921, H. Hacker), [Lamington] National Park, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is known from one male and two females from three localities in SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species differs from :Y. vittipennis in the colour contrast between head, pro- and mesonotum. In Y. concolor these three parts are almost concolorous, with the pronotum being just slightly paler. In Y. vittipennis there is a stark colour contrast between yellow head and pronotum versus a dark brown to black mesonotum. Further differences can be found in the male genitalia as illustrated by Löcker (2020)..

 

ID Keys

Löcker 2020: 35

 

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B. 2020. Revision of Leades Jacobi with the description of a new genus, Yamirrina gen. nov., and notes on the absence of Iolania Kirkaldy from Australia (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae: Cixiini). Journal of Insect Biodiversity 18(1): 17–49 [37]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839	24-Jul-2020	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher