Species Tartessella attenuata Evans, 1937

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• Tartessella attenuata 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 [56].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll.: C. May), Mullewa, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This delicate, elongate, brown species was known from Western Australia only when Evans (1981) completed her revision of the Tartessini but specimens in collections have extended this known distribution to the Northern Territory and the Murray Darling Basin of eastern Australia where the species is widespread.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gascoyne (GAS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface pale brown with transverse brown markings on the frons, the vertex mottled with dark brown and the eyes dark brown. Pronotum dull greyish brown with indistinct whitish maculations. Scutellum dull brown. Tegmen hyaline, veins brown with no incomplete crossveins* and no crossveins on the anal area. Thorax and abdomen, ventral surface, pale brown. Fore and middle tibiae covered with spines; hind tibiae with only a few small spines between the bases of the largest spines. Ovipositor long, pubescent. Length 11 mm, head width 2.8 mm (Evans 1937)

* this feature is not consistent, even among specimens from the J.W. Evans collection.

 

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 [56–57]

 

General References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [121]

 

History of changes

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