Species Australnirvana adelaideae (Evans, 1938)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nirvana adelaideae Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [5].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Waterfall Gully, Adelaide, South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Australnirvana adelaideae (Evans, 1938). —
  Wang, Y, Dietrich, C.H. & Zhang, Y. 2016. Australnirvana, a new leafhopper genus of Nirvanini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) from Australia. Zootaxa 4168(1): 134–140 [138]

 

Introduction

This beautiful green insect with median longitudinal black stripe is widespread in Australia, including Tasmania and Lord Howe Island.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface greenish yellow with two median black spots at the posterior apex; maxillary plates narrow; antennae long, antennal pits disticnt but not deep. Frontoclypeus evenly convex with a median carina posteriorly. Margin of head with an ill-defined carina that separates the frontclypeus from the vertex. Dorsal surface of head greenish yellow with a median black stripe that extends posteriorly onto the thorax. Crown convex; ocelli equally visible in dorsal and lateral aspects. Pronotum colar-like, almost parallel-sided. Tegmen hyaline, partially suffused with yellowish brown with an anteapical hyaline white fascia and a small brown marking at each end of the fascia. Thorax ventral surface yellow. Legs pale green but for the hind femora which are yellow and the tarsal claws which are dark brown. Hind tibia with three rows of long spines and with a few minute spines set between the most widely spaced spines. Abdomen ventral surface yellowish green; ovipositor sheath spinous (Evans 1939).
[Note that this description was made from a dried specimen and the insect in life is bright green and black, not yellowish green and brown]

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [5]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		30-Sep-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)