Species Leptolamia bunyaensis Löcker, 2014

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• Leptolamia bunyaensis Löcker, B. 2014. Shedding light on Jacobi's types whilst discovering new species: a taxonomic revision of Leptolamia Metcalf, 1936 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Austral Entomology 53: 391–423 [Article first published online: 14 APR 2014] [398].
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  Type data:

   Holotype QM T183311 ♂ (coll: 26.xi.–10.xii.1979, malaise trap, rainforest), Mt Glorious, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This caramel-coloured species is only known from two males from separate localities in SE Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore

 

Diagnosis

Colour. Head light brown apart from disc of face mid to dark brown and disc of vertex sometimes mid brown, median carina concolorous with face. Pronotum light brown; mesonotum mid to dark brown. Forewing hyaline colourless with a few light brown marks along crossveins and around veins at apex of wing; veins and tubercles light brown; pterostigma light brown. Legs light brown. Abdominal sternites mid to dark brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 3.8–4.2 mm. Head: Vertex 1.8–1.9× wider than long; at level of basal emargination 1.2–1.3× wider than at subapical carina; apical and subapical carina v-shaped; median carina of vertex complete but obscure; basal compartment of vertex 1.0–1.3× longer than apical compartment. Frons 1.2–1.3× longer than wide; frons just not visible in dorsal view. Position of maximum width of frons more or less around centre of frontoclypeal suture (in some specimens slightly dorsad of frontoclypeal suture). Frontoclypeal suture strongly semicircular, bent upwards, median part reaching at least lower margin of antennal scape. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae; apical segment of rostrum distinctly shorter than subapical segment. Thorax: Pronotum moderately wider than head (including eyes). Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Forewing 3.5–4.0× longer than wide; forewing with slightly developed basal emargination; costa with about 27–32 tubercles, tubercles concolorous with veins; Sc+R+M near basal cell fused, forming a long (more than half of length of basal cell) common stem Sc+R+M; fork of ScRA+RP distinctly basad of fork CuA1+CuA2; position of r-m distad of fork MA+MP; transverse veinlet M3+4 to Cu1a inserting at M3+4 basad of r-m; position of icu at CuA at same level as apex of clavus; position of icu at CuP more or less at same level or slightly distant of apex of clavus; RP apically trifid; MA apically trifid; additional subapical cell between branches of MA absent; nodus of y-vein slightly basad of centre of clavus; vein delimiting subapical cell C4 distinctly distad of vein delimiting C5; 10 apical cells. Hind leg: 1st and 2nd tarsomere with 6 apical teeth. Male genitalia: Anal tube symmetrical in dorsal and caudal view; lateral lobe triangular in lateral view. Ventromedian process of pygofer triangular, uniformly coloured. Aedeagus: Phallotheca left laterally with long, rounded, curved spine (a) inserting at apex of aedeagus; ventrally with recurved spine (b) that is at its base directed caudally and at its tip directed apically; and with long, rounded spine (c). Flagellum unarmed (Löcker 2014).

 

ID Keys

Löcker 2014: 2–3

 

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B. 2014. Shedding light on Jacobi's types whilst discovering new species: a taxonomic revision of Leptolamia Metcalf, 1936 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Austral Entomology 53: 391–423 [Article first published online: 14 APR 2014] [399–400]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CIXIIDAE Spinola, 1839	16-May-2014	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher