Species Alotartessus iambe (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus iambe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [46].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Mittagong, New South Wales.
• Tartessus mackerrasi Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: I. Mackerras), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [194] (synonymy of T. mackerrasi)

 

Generic Combinations

• Alotartessus iambe (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [125]

 

Introduction

This medium-sized brown species has been recorded along the eastern coastline of mainland Australia from SE Queensland to Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Allied to the last [Tartessus io Kirkaldy = Neotartessus flavipes (Spångberg)], but stouter and not so elongate; paler, tegmina milky cinereous, immaculate, except an obscure fuscous spot in some of the cells, veins fuscous, apex of tegmina infuscate. Second subapical cell extending beyond the others apically; crossvein on brachial, nearly straight, in subcostal cell, oblique. Male: pygophor pale ferrugineo-testaceous. with blackish bristles; plates elongate, apically acute. Female: pygophor coloured as in the male, formed as in T. io, but not nearly so acutely or far produced in the middle. Length 6–7 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [46–47]

 

History of changes

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