Species Rhotidoides minor Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhotidoides minor Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [124].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: ii.1964, J.W. Evans), near Waldheim, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania.

 

Introduction

This tiny chocolate-brown thymbrine has been found in elevated locations in Tasmania and New South Wales

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head posteriorly black or dark brown with, in the male, a broad transverse pale brown marginal stripe. Crown of head well defined in male, of equal length with the eyes. In the female somewhat longer in the centre than laterally. Pronotum and tegmina pale brown mottled with dark brown; scutellum evenly pale brown. Apex of abdomen in female extending beyond folded tegmina. Length ♂ 4.2, ♀ 6 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 [124–125]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)