Species Aneono leichhardti Dworakowska, 1972
Compiler and date details
17 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Aneono leichhardti Dworakowska, I. 1972. Australian Dikraneurini (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 20(3): 193-201 [193].
Type data:
Holotype AM K71529 ♂ (coll.: x.1966, J.W. Evans), Albany, Western Australia.
Introduction
This species is only known from the type series (1 ♂, 1♀) from Albany, Western Australia. It was "named in memory of Louis Leichhardt." It is not specified who this person was but it might refer to Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848) who explored parts of inland Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Jarrah Forest (JF)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: parenchyma feeder.
Diagnosis
In size and coloration resembles Aneono venusta Ev. but darker and Cu in fore wing joined with M. Vertex testaceous, on pronotum brown pattern. Smoky pattern on basal 2/3 of fore wing, veins white, basal 2/3 of costal margin and adjoining part of corium red. Abdominal tergites well pigmented. Length ♂ 3.28 mm, ♀ 4.2 mm (Dworakowska 1972).
Diagnosis References
Dworakowska, I. 1972. Australian Dikraneurini (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences. Série des Sciences Biologiques 20(3): 193-201 [193]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |