Species Australoscopus whitei China, 1926

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• Australoscopus whitei China, W.E. 1926. A new subfamily of Bythoscopidae (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1926: 289-296 [296].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: Capt S.A. White), Charlotte Waters to Hamilton Bore, Northern Territory.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1248] (notes on the type locality).

 

Introduction

A blotchy yellow and brown species found in widely scattered locations across mainland Australia. Specimens from Waikerie, South Australia, reported by Day & Pullen (1999) as being Australoscopus China are probably also this species.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: inquiline, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

♀ Rather pale chestnut brown, the vertex, the base of the frons between the frontal sutures and the pronotum about the cicatricial areas, darker. Apex of frons, clypeus, lorae, genae, anterior margin of pronotum in the middle, legs and underside brownish yellow. Tegmina chestnut brown with the costal area pale, a transverse whitish band extending from the claval suture (at one third its length from the base) to the costal area and another whitish area extending from the costal area over the subapical area towards the apex of the clavus but not reaching it. The apical costal area more or less hyaline. Front and middle femora and tibiae without spines or spinules but densely clothed with short bristly hairs. Last ventrite in female produced into a round concave process. Length 8 mm (China 1926).

 

Diagnosis References

China, W.E. 1926. A new subfamily of Bythoscopidae (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1926: 289-296 [296]

 

General References

Day, M.F. & Pullen, K.R. 1999. Leafhoppers in ant nests: Some aspects of the behaviour of Pogonoscopini (Hemiptera: Eurymelidae). Victorian Naturalist 116: 12-15 [14]

 

History of changes

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