Species Ezrana primitiva Evans, 1969

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• Ezrana primitiva Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [735].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K68744 ♀, Cairns, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is quite distinctive in the shape of the head and the structure of the thorax. The species is only known from females but its known distribution is quite disparate between the wet tropics of North Queensland and the drier Nandewar region of northern New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Nandewar (NAN), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration brown. Face of head concave with sparse, fine, white hairs. Labium short, not reaching to base of middle coxae. Maxillary plates with marginal ridge partly enfolding anteclypeus laterally. Postclypeus shining brown, anteriorly convex, medially concave; posteriorly depressed in centre and laterally raised. Lora unusually broad, extending posteriorly as channel-like depressions to narrowly elongate, anterior tentorial pits. Crown of head rugose with irregularly pitted surface. Pronotum posteriorly elevated, posteromedially carinate. Tegmen proximally punctate, distally hyaline; veins brown, in relief, venation reticulate; anal margin of clavus proximally carinate. Length ♀ 18 mm (Evans 1969).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [735]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)