Species Smicrocotis solomoni Evans, 1937
Smicrocotis solomoni Evans, holotype male.
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Species Smicrocotis solomoni Evans, 1937
Compiler and date details
1 December 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Smicrocotis solomoni Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 7. — Stenocotidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 157-164 [160].
Type data:
Holotype QM 5209 ♂ (coll.: M.E. Solomon), Crawley, Western Australia.
Introduction
This species is only known from the type locality, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, although a specimen identified as this species in ASCU is from Scheyville in the Sydney Basin of New South Wales. A review of the species of Smicrocotis, based on examination of the male genitalia, is needed to confirm the validity of the three species currently recognised and confirm the extensive list of synonyms, particularly of S. obscura.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head evenly convex, pale yellowish brown mottled with black and reddish brown; antennal pits black, ocelli on flattened ventral surface of head; suture between postclypeus and frons distinct. Crown narrow, wider against the eyes on each side than in the middle, yellowish white with reddish brown markings. Pronotum yellowish white mottled with black and pale orange brown. Scutellum pale yellowish brown. Tegmen whitish hyaline with irregular scattered brownish black areas; veins brown with raised white spots. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs black with pale brown markings. Hind tibia with six distinct spurs diminishing in size from the apex of the tibia to the base and, in addition, two rows of prominent spines and a row of smaller closely set spines. Subgenital plates short. Length (from apex of head to tip of folded tegmina) 7 mm (Evans 1937).
ID Keys
Evans 1966: 108–109
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 7. — Stenocotidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 157-164 [160]
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [108–110]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 20-Sep-2011 | 20-Sep-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |