Species Rubria brevifrons (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ledra brevifrons Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [825].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (from Mr Argent's collection), New Holland.
• Rhotidus horrendus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [368].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

 

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 [102] (synonymy of R. horrendus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Rhotidus brevifrons (Walker, 1851). —
  Evans, J.W. 1947. A natural classification of leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera) Part 3. Jassidae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 98(6): 105-271 [252]
• Rubria brevifrons (Walker, 1851). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [102]

 

Introduction

This species is fairly common in the southeastern parts of mainland Australia and Tasmania although there are records from North Queensland and SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Testacea, gracilis; caput subtus nigro bimaculatum; pectoris discus niger; alae anticae sublimpidae, basi et margine fiavescentes; alae posticae limpidae. Male. Testaceous, rather narrow: head flat, short-conical, as broad as the chest, very slightly arched, thickly punctured, very slightly concave along the hind border, with an indistinct middle ridge; its length about half its breadth; two large black spots beneath, united in front, widening thence towards each eye; chest slightly convex, finely striated transversely; shield slightly convex along the fore border; disk of the breast black; abdomen tapering from the base to the tip: fore-wings almost colourless, tinged with yellow towards the base and on the border;hind-wings colourless. Length of the body 32 lines; of the wings 7 lines (Walker 1851).

Crown of male, brown mottled with pale yellowish brown, of female, green. Pronotum of male concolorous with the crown; of female anteriorly green, posteriorly sometimes brown. Tegmen pale hyaline green. Length ♂ 8.5, ♀ 11.5 mm; crown of head 2.2 and 3 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [102]

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [825]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)