Species Macroceps tamarensis Evans, 1937

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• Macroceps tamarensis 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 [67].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀, Launceston, Tasmania.

 

Introduction

This hunch-backed species was described from Tasmania but a specimen in the J.W. Evans collection is from SE Queensland. M.M. Stevens (pers. comm. 2005) considers that the species is probably not congeneric with the type species of Macroceps.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, Tas: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head pale brown, ocelli red, eyes greyish brown; frons less convex anteriorly than with M. tonnoiri, and the lorae more declivous. Pronotum and scutellum pale chestnut brown mottled with yellowish brown. Tegmen hyaline suffused with pale brown; veins barred with brown and white. Thorax ventral surface and front two pairs of legs brown, hind tibiae pale brown but for the apices of the tibiae and the bases of the spines which are dark brown. Abdomen ventral surface brown. Length 6.5 mm. Head width 2.8 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 [67]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
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