Species Arawa decoloratus (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deltocephalus decoloratus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [148].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (discuss R.E. Turner's collecting sites).

 

Generic Combinations

• Arawa decoloratus (Evans, 1942). —
  Fletcher, M.J. 2004. A revision of the genus Horouta Knight with description of two new species and notes on other species of Deltocephalinae (Hemipter: Cicadellidae). General and Applied Entomology 33: 45-54 [53]

 

Introduction

This species, from the SW of Western Australia, is much paler than other species in the genus which tend to be heavily mottled with dark brown whereas this species is mainly ivory with some brown markings.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface pale buff with faint brown transverse muscle impressions on the frontoclypeus. Crown wider in the centre than against the eyes, rounded apically, pale buff with a pattern of narrow brown markings; eyes pale brown. Pronotum and scutellum yellowish white with a few transverse narrow brown markings. Tegmen whitish hyaline partially suffused with brown; veins white. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface whitish yellow. Length 3.8 mm (Evans 1942).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [148]

 

History of changes

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