Species Aloplemmeles gearyi Evans, 1966

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• Aloplemmeles gearyi Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [210].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: ii.1943, N. Geary), Cunnamulla, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is only known from Cunnamulla in SW Queensland. The specimen figured here is a female in the J.W. Evans collection from the type locality and may be a second female paratype.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Mulga Lands (ML)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration pale green. Face of head as wide as long, flattened; frontoclypeus posteriorly slightly depressed below level of vertex. Apex of head thicker in ♂ than in ♀; ocelli facing forward, close to but not in contact with the eyes. Crown approximately triangular, apically rounded; in ♂ slightly more than half length of pronotum; in ♀ almost as long as pronotum. Tegmen sometimes with a few secondary crossveins and always with additional costal veinlets. Minute spines on tegmen present in ♀ only. Length ♂ 7, ♀ 10 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [210]

 

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)