Species Tenuitartessus angelesi F. Evans, 1981

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• Tenuitartessus angelesi Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [133].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 12.x.1972, T. Weir), Nourlangie Ck, 6 km E of Mt Cahill, Northern Territory.

 

Introduction

This nicely marked caramel brown species is only known from the northern parts of the Northern Territory.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Straminaceous. Face straminaceous, partly dark brown in female. Pronotum and scutellum pale straminaceous, sometimes in female with a distinctive pattern of longitudinal coffee-coloured markings. Tegmen pale hyaline brown; veins pale or dark brown. Male genitalia: pygophore parallel-sided, apically rounded; aedeagus club-shaped with an anterior and a posterior spine. Xth segment with a pair of hook-shaped processes arising from the base. Length ♂ 6.8 mm, ♀ 7.8 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 [133–134]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)