Species Anyllis tiegsi (China, 1952)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Neoaphrophora tiegsi China, W.E. 1952. A new genus and species of Aphrophorinae (Cercopidae, Hemiptera-Homoptera) from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 5: 789-792 [791].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll. O.W. Tiegs), Melbourne, Victoria.

 

Generic Combinations

• Anyllis tiegsi (China, 1952). —
  Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [87]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), New England Tablelands (NET), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Length, male 5.2 mm, female 6.8 mm. General coloration pale yellowish, or greyish brown. Crown, pronotum and scutellum pale brown, muscle impressions on the anterior half of the pronotum prominent in the female. Tegmen brown, pale brown and white; an anterior, whitish, irregular, transverse fascia, margined posteriorly with an irregular brown area, shading to white, followed by another brown area. Between this and the apex of the tegmen, which is brown, a hyaline area; veins brown. (Evans 1966, as Neoaphrophora tiegsi)

 

ID Keys

Liang & Wang 2012: 1010

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [317]

Liang, A.P. & Wang, R.R. 2012. A revision of the endemic Australian spittlebug genus Anyllis Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae) with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Natural History 46(15–16): 1005–1023 [1010]

 

History of changes

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26-Jul-2010		30-May-2010	MODIFIED
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