Species Arawa novella (Metcalf, 1968)

Arawa novella (Metcalf), adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deltocephalus montanus Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [16] [junior homonym; of Deltocephalus montanus Distant, 1908].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: 4.xi.1934, J.W. Evans), Mount Lofty, South Australia.
• Deltocephalus novellus Metcalf, Z.P. 1968. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VI, Cicadelloidea. Part 10, Euscelidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 2695 pp. [1167] [replacement name; for Deltocephalus montanus Evans, 1938].

Generic Combinations

• Arawa novella (Metcalf, 1968). —
  Knight, W.J. 1975. Deltocephalinae of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 2(2): 169-208 [183]

Introduction

This short broad species is quite dark in coloration. It is distributed widely in southern Australia, frequently but not exclusively from higher altitudes, from the New South Wales high country to Tasmania and from locations in South Australia (the type locality is Mount Lofty near Adelaide) and SW Western Australia. It is also recorded from both islands of New Zealand as well as Stewart and Chatham islands.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Jarrah Forest (JF), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface black, mottled with bright yellow; crown only slightly pointed apically, muscle impressions not extending onto the crown, marked with an irregular pattern of black and yellow; ocelli red. Pronotum yellowish grey, flecked with tranverse dark brown markings. Tegmen hyaline, greyish brown; veins white bordered with irregular dark brown markings. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black. Legs marked with an irregular pattern of dark brown, yellow and black. Length 3mm (Evans 1938, as Deltocephalus montanus).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [16]

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