Species Aprivesa varipennis Muir, 1931

Aprivesa varipennis Muir, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Aprivesa varipennis Muir, F. 1931. Descriptions and records of Fulgoroidea from Australia and the South Pacific Islands. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(2): 63-83 [83].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: E.L. Grant-Watson), Carnarvon, Western Australia.
  Paratype(s) AM ♀ (coll: E.L. Grant-Watson), Carnarvon, Western Australia
  Comment: Muir (1931) states that the type is in BMNH and paratype in AM but also states that he had one male and three females. The other two female paratypes are probably in BMNH.

Introduction

This species was described from the far west coast of Western Australia but has subsequently also been recorded in inland New South Wales and from near Eucla on the southern coastline of Souith Australia. It can be differentiated from other described species by the evenly dark brown tegmina.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

There is no transverse carina across the base of frons as in A. exuta (Melichar), the medio-laterals are short and obscure and join the base of the frons, otherwise it is quite typical. The stalk Sc + R is very short, the fork of R is more distad and Cu still more distad, abotu level with claval fork; the apical and subapical cell about equal in length. Frons dark brown on base, yellow on apex, slightly mottled between; clypeus brown, lighter down middle. Vertex and pronotum dark brown, the lateral portions of pronotum with lighter marks; mesonotum dark brown, nearly black. Thoracic pleura dark; legs light brown. Abdominal sterna yellow, the fourth, fifth and sixth bearing circular depressions which are darker in colour; the terga dark brown. Tegmina fuscous brown mottled with hyaline, most numerous over costal area and membrane; veins brown. Wings hyaline with brown veins, lighter in corium. The frons is darker in one specimen and the legs brown. ♀ similar to ♂ (Muir 1931).

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1931. Descriptions and records of Fulgoroidea from Australia and the South Pacific Islands. No 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(2): 63-83 [83]

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