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(
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,
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FF1A7713F73FFB9A" box="[151,305,1044,1068]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">Cixius sidnicus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FF1A775DF6EAFBC2" bold="true" box="[151,228,1114,1140]" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">Types.</emphasis>
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,
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(examined),
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, NSW:
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, Kinb. (
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NHRS-GULI 000038154).
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FF4A777AF72EFB2E" bold="true" box="[199,288,1149,1176]" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">Colour.</emphasis>
Vertex and pronotum light to mid brown with slightly paler carinae. Face mid brown with paler carinae. Mesonotum mid brown, central area (in between carinae) light brown. Forewings light brown, veins light brown, concolorous with cells, tubercles dark, in distinct contrast with lighter coloured veins. Pterostigma, crossveins and apical parts of veins slightly darker. Body mid brown, legs light to mid brown.
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FF4A7609F76FFA9E" bold="true" box="[199,353,1294,1320]" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">Morphology.</emphasis>
Body length:
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.
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<paragraph id="8BC0883DFFA0FFF2FF4A7635F525FA6B" blockId="30.[151,1437,1113,2041]" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">Head: Vertex 2.0 x wider than long; median carina covering about half of length of basal compartment of vertex; absent in apical compartment. Frons 1.2 x longer than wide; position of maximum width distinctly dorsad of frontoclypeal suture; lateral carinae of frons in facial view convex, rectilinear apically. Frontoclypeal suture strongly semicircular, bent upwards, median part just reaching lower margin of antennal scape. Median carina of post- and anteclypeus well developed. Rostrum reaching hind coxae.</paragraph>
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Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum acutely angled. Mesonotum with weakly developed median and lateral carinae. Forewing 3.3 x longer than wide; concavity at costal border absent; costal margin with 2022 tubercles; fork of ScP+RA and RP at same level or slightly basad of fork CuA1 and CuA2; tubercles of forewing dark, distinctly contrasted to paler coloured veins; ScP+RA apically bifid; RP trifid; additional subapical cell between branches of MP1 and MP2 absent; MP1+2 trifid; MP3+4 trifid; 12 apical cells; 6 subapical cells. Hind leg: tibia with 6 apical spines; 1
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tarsomere
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with 11 apical teeth and 6 platellae; 2
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tarsomere with 10 apical teeth and 8 platellae.
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FF4A75BAF7E9F96E" bold="true" box="[199,487,1725,1752]" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">Diagnosis and Remarks.</emphasis>
Several characters prove that the female
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of
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is not congeneric with
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FF5D75E4F78CF94A" box="[208,386,1763,1789]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">Cixius nervosus</emphasis>
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. The most striking are: A median ocellus is missing in
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FC6B75E5F27EF94A" box="[998,1136,1762,1788]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">Ch. sidnicus</emphasis>
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, but always present in true
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FF1A7400F6D1F897" box="[151,223,1799,1825]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">Cixius</emphasis>
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. All
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species have 23 large lateral spines on the hind tibia, whereas
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only has 2 minute lateral spines.
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The characters given above as diagnostic for
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fit with the female type of
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FBDD7448F2C2F8DE" box="[1104,1228,1870,1897]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">C. sidnicus</emphasis>
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, thus we conclude that the specimen belongs to the genus
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. In several
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FCCC7475F5AEF83A" box="[833,928,1906,1932]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">Chidaea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
taxa, we are—on a morphological basis—at the moment unable to identify females to species level. Thus, we are also unable to decide if the female
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of
<taxonomicName id="4C7FF3BEFFA0FFF2FF3874BCF73CF862" authorityName="Stal" authorityYear="1859" box="[181,306,1978,2005]" class="Insecta" family="Cixiidae" genus="Cixius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="431" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sidnicus">
<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA0FFF2FF3874BCF73CF862" box="[181,306,1978,2005]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="431">C. sidnicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is conspecific with males of a species described above or represents another species where males are as yet unknown.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA1FFF3FF1A7449F72EF8D1" bold="true" box="[151,288,1870,1895]" pageId="31" pageNumber="432">FIGURE 15.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA1FFF3FEAB7449F7DBF8D0" box="[294,469,1870,1894]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="432">Chidaea sidnicus</emphasis>
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: A habitus and labels; BD head; E forewing.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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The examination of the female
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revealed the presence of dark tubercles on the forewing in distinct contrast to lighter coloured veins. Four species of
<taxonomicName id="4C7FF3BEFFA1FFF3FD1174BEF4F5F865" box="[668,763,1977,2003]" class="Insecta" family="Cixiidae" genus="Chidaea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="432" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA1FFF3FD1174BEF4F5F865" box="[668,763,1977,2003]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="432">Chidaea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are known to have dark tubercles. Based on the locality (the specimen was collected in Sydney), two of these species can be excluded (
<taxonomicName id="4C7FF3BEFFA1FFF3FC4374DAF279F841" authorityName="Löcker &amp; Holzinger" authorityYear="2019" box="[974,1143,2013,2039]" class="Insecta" family="Cixiidae" genus="Chidaea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="432" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kimbaensis">
<emphasis id="B90B542FFFA1FFF3FC4374DAF279F841" box="[974,1143,2013,2039]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="432">Ch. kimbaensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
only occurs in South Aus- tralia and
<taxonomicName id="4C7FF3BEFF9EFFCCFE84739EF77AFF05" authorityName="Löcker &amp; Holzinger" authorityYear="2019" box="[265,372,153,179]" class="Insecta" family="Cixiidae" genus="Chidaea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="32" pageNumber="433" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="etelis">
<emphasis id="B90B542FFF9EFFCCFE84739EF77AFF05" box="[265,372,153,179]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="433">Ch. etelis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is restricted to
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). Therefore
<taxonomicName id="4C7FF3BEFF9EFFCCFCF7739EF237FF05" authority="Stal" authorityName="Stal" box="[890,1081,152,179]" class="Insecta" family="Cixiidae" genus="Chidaea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="32" pageNumber="433" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sidnicus">
<emphasis id="B90B542FFF9EFFCCFCF7739EF20BFF05" box="[890,1029,153,179]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="433">Ch. sidnicus</emphasis>
Stål
</taxonomicName>
is likely to be conspecific with one of the two remaining species, either
<taxonomicName id="4C7FF3BEFF9EFFCCFDEF73BAF4D4FF61" authorityName="Löcker &amp; Holzinger" authorityYear="2019" box="[610,730,189,215]" class="Insecta" family="Cixiidae" genus="Chidaea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="32" pageNumber="433" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="crassa">
<emphasis id="B90B542FFF9EFFCCFDEF73BAF4D4FF61" box="[610,730,189,215]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="433">Ch. crassa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or
<taxonomicName id="4C7FF3BEFF9EFFCCFC8D73BAF5DBFF61" authorityName="Löcker &amp; Holzinger" authorityYear="2019" box="[768,981,189,215]" class="Insecta" family="Cixiidae" genus="Chidaea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="32" pageNumber="433" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bobadeenensis">
<emphasis id="B90B542FFF9EFFCCFC8D73BAF5DBFF61" box="[768,981,189,215]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="433">Ch. bobadeenensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which have an overlapping distribution in
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and
<collectingRegion id="49BB46DFFF9EFFCCFE2273E6F438FF4D" box="[431,566,225,251]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="32" pageNumber="433">Queensland</collectingRegion>
, both occurring in the Sydney region. With the present state of knowledge it is impossible to associate the female
<typeStatus id="54C4369FFF9EFFCCFD937202F48EFEA9" box="[542,640,261,287]" pageId="32" pageNumber="433" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
with certainty with one of these two species as differentiation between these species is entirely based on males. If an assignation will be possible in future—either by new characters or methods—one of the names given here might become a junior subjective synonym of
<taxonomicName id="4C7FF3BEFF9EFFCCFBD1724AF37BFED1" authority="(Stal, 1859)" authorityName="Löcker &amp; Holzinger" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Stal" baseAuthorityYear="1859" box="[1116,1397,332,359]" class="Insecta" family="Cixiidae" genus="Chidaea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="32" pageNumber="433" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sidnicus">
<emphasis id="B90B542FFF9EFFCCFBD1724AF2E9FED1" box="[1116,1255,333,359]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="433">Ch. sidnicus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFEEF5CCFF9EFFCCFB7B724BF363FED1" author="Stal, C." box="[1270,1389,332,359]" pageId="32" pageNumber="433" pagination="219 - 298" refId="ref31928" refString="Stal, C. (1859) Hemiptera, Species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden, Zoologi, 1, Insecta, 219 - 298." type="journal article" year="1859">Stål, 1859</bibRefCitation>
)
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.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B90B542FFF9EFFCCFF4A7277F76DFE3D" bold="true" box="[199,355,368,395]" pageId="32" pageNumber="433">Distribution:</emphasis>
NSW.
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