Species Yarnikada ulliae Löcker & Fletcher, 2006

Yarnikada ulliae Löcker & Fletcher, holotype

© Copyright Birgit Löcker. Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Yarnikada ulliae 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 [148].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T123585 ♂ (coll: G. Daniels, 1.x.1991, 200m; originally from UQIC), 6km N of Taroom, Queensland [25°36'S 149°46'E].

Introduction

A small plain brown species with clear wings. The name honours Ulli Fellner, a friend of the first author.

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 yellow; face dark brown, carinae yellow except for dark brown lateral carinae on postclypeus; pronotum yellow; mesonotum yellow to orange; legs yellow; forewing hyaline grey, veins and tubercles yellow to light brown; abdominal sternites dark brown, intersegmental membranes yellow. Morphology. Body length. ♂ 4.7 mm. Male genitalia. Aedeagus: phallotheca with a single long, slightly curved spine left laterally near apex and a triangular ventral ridge; flagellum unarmed. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

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 [151]

History of changes