Genus Soractellus Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Soractellus Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [225].

  Type species:

   Soractellus brunneus Evans, 1966 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This genus of small brown leafhoppers was established for two species from Queensland but there are at least four undescribed species and the distribution of the genus is widespread across Australia from Barrow Island in the NW of Western Australia across the Northern Territory and Queensland, including Torres Strait islands, and south as far as the Victorian midlands.

 

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: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Daly Basin (DAB), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Diagnosis

Soractellus was defined by Evans (1966) as being similar to Soracte Kirkaldy in broad structural features, differing in the shape and proportions of "several parts of the male genitalia". The main features of the male genitalia in both genera are short broad subgenital plates which are not united and a very short aedeagal shaft forming a cone-shaped ring and surmounted by a pair of long processes. The paramere in Soracte has a long apical process with the lateral process remote from the apex while in Soractellus the apical process is short and curved with the lateral process close to it. In both geners, the species can be defined by the proportions and shape of these various parts.

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [225]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
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