Species Bulotartessus ambiguus F. Evans, 1981

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• Bulotartessus ambiguus Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [135].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 11704 ♂ (coll.: 14.iii.1956, 200 m, J.L. Gressitt), Kuranda, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is restricted to coastal districts of far North Queensland. It is quite distinctive with its broad, expansive vertex coloured bright yellow and contrasting with the dark forewings. In general appearance, it has more in common with Plexitartessus pulchellus, or even species of Newmaniana but it was placed in this genus, by Evans (1981), on the basis of features of the male genitalia, particularly the presence on long, U-shaped processes from the base of the male Xth segment.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale yellowish brown, pale brown and white. Head and thorax pale brown (possibly yellow in life). Crown anteriorly produced, of even length. Tegmen pale brown, apically darker and with a pair of incomplete transverse white fasciae. Length: ♂ 10 mm, ♀ 12 mm. (Evans 1981).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [135]

 

History of changes

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