Species Mapochiella woodwardi Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mapochiella woodwardi Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♀ (coll.: v.1954, T.E. Woodward), Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland.

 

Introduction

Specimens which match the unusual head shape of this species are known from inland parts of the Northern Territory, Barrow Island in the Carnarvon region of Western Australia and northern New South Wales. Whether they are all the one species has yet to be determined.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration straw colour. Face of head with a post-apical basin-like depression on each side of the median keel. Crown of head straw colour mottled with brown with a pre-apical long, narrow depression at the apex of the median ridge and with lateral depressions on each side of the head. Pronotum straw colour with a median and post-ocular lateral ridges. Tegmen straw colour. Length ♂ 5.2 mm, of head 1.5 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 [140]

 

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		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)