Species Empoascanara (Empoascanara) australensis Dworakowska, 1972

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• Empoascanara australensis Dworakowska, I. 1972. Aaka gen. n., and some other Erythroneurini (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 20: 769-778 [772].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K71525 ♂ (coll: light trap), Darwin, Northern Territory.

 

Introduction

This species was placed by Dworakowska (1992) into the limbata species group. It is distributed across the tropical north from the Darwin coast, along the coast of Queensland to the northeast of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Plains (GUP), New England Tablelands (NET), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species bears a single round black spot at the apex of the head and the costal and claval areas of the tegmen are dark brown basally. It can be distinguished from other species of the genus with similar markings only by comparison with the male genitalia which were figured by Dworakowska (1972).

 

Diagnosis References

Dworakowska, I. 1972. Aaka gen. n., and some other Erythroneurini (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 20: 769-778 [772–773]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Mar-2012		13-Mar-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)