Species Eutartessus brooksi F. Evans, 1981

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• Eutartessus brooksi Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [150].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: 4.xi.1971, J.G. Brooks), Cairns, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This relatively large and elegantly coloured species is known from far north Queensland. The species is named after the collector of the holotype, J.G. Brooks, who contributed enormously to the collections of insects from the wet tropics of Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face pale yellowish brown, sometimes with the lora, postclypeus in part and genae black. Crown, pronotum and scutellum anteriorly yellowish or smoky brown; scutellum posteriorly pale yellow. Tegmen vitreous subapically and costal margin broadly black or brown; external margin black; veins brown and black. Length ♂ 9 mm, ♀ 10.6 mm (Evans 1981)

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [150]

 

History of changes

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