Species Pediopsis lutea (Evans, 1935)
Compiler and date details
27 March 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Macropsis luteolus Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [166] [replacement name; for Macropsis luteus (Evans, 1942)].
- Oncopsis luteus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [155] [of Macropsis luteus Evans, 1936].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: x.1935, R.E. Turner), Dongara, 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] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).
Generic Combinations
- Pediopsis lutea (Evans, 1966) [Hamilton (1980), in transferring this species from Macropsis where it was a junior homonym of Macropsis luteus Evans 1936, into Pediopsis, resurrected the older name in line with ICZN Article 59.4]. —
Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [904]
Introduction
A largish greenish yellow species from SW Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head yellow, eyes dark red, ocelli black. Crown visible narrowly against the eyes. Pronotum greenish yellow, declivous. Scutellum yellow. Tegmen pale hyaline yellow with a dark brown spot at the apex of the claval suture, veins yellow, venation similar to that of O. fuscopunctatus [= Macropsis fuscoguttatus Day & Fletcher]. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface yellow, the bases of the largest spines on the hind tibia black. Length 4.8 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 [155]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 19-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |