Species Macroceps darwinensis Evans, 1966

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• Macroceps darwinensis Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [117].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: E. Reye), Darwin, Northern Territory.

 

Introduction

This nicely marked species has been found in both the northern coastal and SE inland regions of the Northern Territory as well as several northern and western coastal districts of Western Australia. M.M. Stevens (pers. comm. 2005) considers that the species is probably not congeneric with the type species of Macroceps.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Carnarvon (CAR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head entirely dark brown or dark reddish brown, or in part pink and in part brown. Vertex facially situated, except for a narrow crown, longest against the eyes. Pronotum not steeply declivous, ochreous in ♂, in ♀ grey with dark brown or black markings and with scribbled pale brown markings. Scutellum evenly brown or reddish brown. Tegmen pale greyish hyaline, irregularly mottled with brown, the brown markings denser in ♂ than in ♀; veins brown, in part white. Length ♂ 6.2, ♀ 8 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 [117]

 

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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