Species Trocnada alpina Evans, 1939

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Regional Maps

• Trocnada alpina Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: A.L. Tonnoir), Alpine Creek, Mount Kosciuszko, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species is mainly distributed along the high country of SE New South Wales and Victoria with records from SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface, maxillary plates and lora pale grey; frontoclypeus pale yellow. Crown declivous, pale yellow ornamented with red and black spots. Pronotum yellowish grey with black and pink spots. Scutellum yellow with black markings. Tegmen pinkish hyaline; veins pale brown bordered with black spots. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale greenish yellow. Hind tibia pale yellow but for the external surface which is dark brown and the bases of the spines which are black. Male genitalia with long narrow parameres and subgenital plates which are concealed by the overlapping tergite of the eighth abdominal segment; pygophores not developed. Length 7 mm (Evans 1939).

Dai & Dietrich (2012) provide a description and illustrations of the male genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Dai & Dietrich 2012: 55–56

 

Diagnosis References

Dai, W. and Dietrich, C.H. 2012. Review of the Australian leafhopper genus Trocnada with notes on related genera (Hemiptera:Cicadellidae: Iassinae). Zootaxa 3209: 53–66 [57]

Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [47]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	Iassinae Amyot & Serville, 1843	08-Nov-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)