Species Tartessella incompleta Evans, 1937

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Regional Maps

• Tartessella incompleta 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 [57].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll.: H. Hardcastle), 'Cannamilla' [= Cunnamulla], Queensland.

 

Introduction

This elongate, brown species is widespread across Australia from SE Queensland to Western Australia although it has not been recorded in New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Coolgardie (COO), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head pale yellow with yellow markings on the frons, the vertex mottled with brown; eyes brown mottled with black. Pronotum grey mottled with brown; lateral angles behind the eyes pale yellow marked with an irregular brown pattern. Scutellum pale yellow with two dark brown lateral longitudinal markings. Tegmen hyaline, colourless; veins with several incomplete crossveins, especially on the anal area. Thorax and abdomen, ventral surface, pale yellowish brown. Hind tibiae with the basal spurs of one row of spines large and pointed, the intervening spines few and small (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

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 [57]

 

History of changes

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