Species Platyscopus badius Evans, 1942

Museums

Regional Maps

• Platyscopus badius Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [146].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).
• Platyscopus coloratus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [146].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

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 [220] (synonymy of P. coloratus)

 

Introduction

This species may be the senior synonym of P. moorei Evans but an examination of the type material of all three described names, including the synonymised P. coloratus Evans which is based on a male holotype, is needed to determine their validity.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head chestnut brown, eyes red. Pronotum chestnut brown partially sfufused with dark brown. Scutellum chestnut brown. Tegmen pale hyaline brown, apically smoky grey, veins pale brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs brown. Last abdominal segment narrowly produeced medially, emarginate laterally, Ovipositor sheath spinose. Length 7 mm (Evans 1942).

Head ventral surface dark brown. Crown chestnut brown with a medium [sic] black stripe extending from the base to within one third of the apex and two small brown markings close to the eyes on each side; eyes red. Pronotum chestnut brown. Scutellum black. Tegmen hyaline brown, the costal border colorless; apex and veins dark brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black. Length 5.5 mm (Evans 1942, of P. coloratus)

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [146]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
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