Species Yanganaka ariecornia Löcker, 2015

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• Yanganaka ariecornia Löcker, B. 2015. Revision of the Australian species of Aka White, 1879 (Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of a new genus. Zootaxa 3956(2): 199–223 [220].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K437130 ♂ (coll: M. Driessen, 10.viii.1999, +/- 25m, Grid/Sample: ARE 2, Method: S), McPartlan Pass, Tasmania [5256300N 0438000E].

 

Introduction

This small brown species is marked with pretty speckling on its short tegmina. It is only known from near Lake Pedder in SW Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be phloem feeder or fungivore

 

Diagnosis

A full description and figures of the habitus, head and male genitalia are provided by Löcker (2015) and, as the species is the only one known in the genus, it can currently be identified using the generic diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B. 2015. Revision of the Australian species of Aka White, 1879 (Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) with the description of a new genus. Zootaxa 3956(2): 199–223 [220–221]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839	09-Jul-2015	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher