Species Evansiana iasis (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthuchus iasis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [90].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland
  Comment: this is one of the few species for which Kirkaldy designated a type specimen.

 

Generic Combinations

• Evansiana iasis (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  McKamey, S.H. 1994. Taxonomic changes in the Membracidae (Homoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 96(2): 318-322 [318]
• Kurandella iasis (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [299]

 

Introduction

This small drab, narrow insect is found in coastal areas of Queensland from Cape York Peninsula to the SE corner and there are also a number of records from New South Wales, including inland sites. A comprehensive examination of the genus may reveal that the NSW material represent a separate species.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Differs from Centrotypus occidentalis [Kirkaldy (= Yangupia occidentalis (Goding)] and minutus [Goding (= Pogonella minutus (Goding)] by the small first "discoidal," and the upwardly elevated, not small, horns. Reddish-pitchy, pronotal keel blacker on the disk. Tegmina ferruginous, basal veins reddish-pitchy, apically ferruginous. Tibiae, tarsi and apices of femora yellow-ferruginous. Ocelli a trifle nearer one another than to the eyes, yellow brown. Horns placed much as in Zanophara leda [Kirkaldy (= Ceraon tasmaniae (Fairmaire)], but acute and turned outwards and upwards. Pronotal process reaches to apex of tegmina. Length 5–5¾ mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [90]

 

History of changes

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