Genus Austrotartessus F. Evans, 1981

Austrotartessus ianassa (Kirkaldy), type species of Austrotartessus F. Evans.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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Regional Maps

• Austrotartessus Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [140].

  Type species:

   Tartessus ianassa Kirkaldy, 1907 by original designation.

Introduction

A relatively large genus of 12 species distributed mainly in Australia with two species in Papua New Guinea one of which, A. oriomis F. Evans, is not found in Australia. Most species are distributed along the eastern coastline of mainland Australia from North Queensland to the Sydney basin in New South Wales but two species are found in Western Australia, A. flavus at Yanchep in the Swan Valley and A. rubrivenosus at Dedari which is in the arid inland Coolgardie bioregion. The species are generally yellowish brown to golden brown with some darker mottling.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Small, narrow, apically tapering, golden brown, yellowish or dark brown insects, sometimes mottled with brown or yellow. Tegmen hyaline brown or golden brown, veins dark brown. Male genitalia: pygophore broadly lobe-like, sometimes narrowly or widely dorsally emarginate. Aedeagus U-shaped, sometimes with a basally attached narrow or broad vertical posterior process. Xth segment with a pair of long, narrow, sometimes downwardly curved processes arising from the base. Female with VIIth abdominal sternite transverse, medially emarginate (Evans 1981).

ID Keys

Evans 1981: 115–118

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [140–141]

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