Species Protartessus spinosus (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus spinosus 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 AM ♂ (coll.: K. Norris), Carnac Island, Western Australia.

  Type host:

   Anthocercis littorea Labill., 1806 [Solanaceae]

 

Generic Combinations

• Protartessus spinosus (Evans, 1937). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [138]

 

Introduction

This species is fairly widespread in coastal Western Australia from Barrow Island to the Perth region.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Anthocercis littorea Labillardière [SOLANACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Frons and vertex pale brown with dark brown markings; clypeus, maxillary plates and lora pale greyish brown. Pronotum very pale yellowish brown mottled with grey. Scutellum pale yellowish brown with dark brown markings. Tegmen colourless hyaline; veins distinct, brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale brown with dark brown markings. Legs pale brown with dark brown markings, excepting the hind tibiae which are pale yellowish brown and the bases of the spines which are black; femora and tibiae of front two pairs of legs covered with short, sharp spines; hind femora smooth. Male genitalia: aedeagus short, pygophores with a divided process attached to the dorsal margin anteriorly; subgenital paltes covered externally with strong spines, each spine having a black base. Ovipositor with the outer sheath covered with short, sharp spines. Length 6.5 mm. Head width 2.5 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)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED