Species Tenuitartessus blundellensis (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus blundellensis Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Blundells, Australian Capital Territory.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tenuitartessus blundellensis (Evans, 1937). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [133]

 

Introduction

This pale brown species is distributed around the southeastern regions of mainland Australia.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventrally pale coffee-coloured with whitish markings, but for the clypeus which is pale straminaceous; eyes reddish brown. Dorsal surface of the head with the hind margin of the frons broadly visible. Pronotum pale coffee-coloured with irregular whitish markings. Scutellum dull olive brown. Tegmen pale hyaline brown, the veins brown tinged with purple; hind border with a group of four spines. Thorax and abdomen, ventral surface and legs, pale straminaceous but for the bases of the spines on the hind tibiae which are dark brown. Length 9.5 mm. Head width 1.9 mm (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [55]

 

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)