Species Thymbris melvillensis Evans, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thymbris melvillinsis Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [59] [original spelling].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll.: W.D. Dodd), Melville Island, Northern Territory.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Thymbris melvillensis Evans, 1937 [emendation]. —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [126]

 

Introduction

This beautifully marked brown species with contrasting pale venation is known from two localities in the Northern Territory.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface with the anterior two thirds yellowish brown with small dark brown markings; posteriorly two or three transverse black bands, one of which is situated on the ventral portion of the vertex, the other or others on the crown or dorsal portion of the vertex. The ocelli are situated on the middle band. Pronotum and scutellum pale yellowish brown regularly mottled with dark brown. Tegmen veins wide, whitish yellow; tegmen bordering the veins dull brown, elsewhere yellowish hyaline. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface brown. Length 12 mm (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [59]

 

History of changes

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