Species Neovulturnus hackeri (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vulturnus hackeri Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [153].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM 5204 ♀ (coll.: H. Hacker), Sunnybank, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neovulturnus hackeri (Evans, 1937). —
  Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [180]

 

Introduction

This species is distributed along the eastern coastline of mainland Australia from the wet tropics of North Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales. It is pale and beautifully marked with mid and dark brown. Ventrally it is mainly black.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventrally black but for the overhanging thickened ledge which is pale yellowish brown. Dorsal surface very pale yellowish brown mottled with brown; ocelli large. Pronotum dark brown with yellowish grey maculations. Scutellum yellow with dark brown markings. Tegmen silvery white, reticulate between the veins, the reticulations dark brown and black. Appendix and supplementary appendix, pale hyaline brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black. Legs fore femora brown, fore tibiae pale brown, the rest of the legs black, but for the spines on the hind tibiae, which are pale yellowish brown. Length 3.8 mm (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [153]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		01-Nov-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)