Genus Austroagallia Evans, 1936

Austroagallia torrida Evans, type species of Austroagallia Evans.

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Austroagallia Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [70].

  Type species:

   Austroagallia torrida Evans, 1936 by original designation.
• Peragallia Ribaut, H. 1948. Demembrement dequelques genres de Jassidae. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 83: 57-59 [59].

  Type species:

   Bythoscopus sinuatus Mulsant and Rey, 1855 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Le Quesne, W.J. 1964. Some taxonomic changes and additions in the British Cicadellidae (Hemiptera) including a new species and subspecies. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 33: 73-82 [73]

Introduction

This is a Palaearctic and western Oriental genus which is presumably adventive in Australia with the single, economically important species Austroagallia torrida Evans, the Spotted Leafhopper. However, this species has not been recorded elsewhere and, if adventive, its origins have not yet been determined.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Mallee (MAL)

Diagnosis

The head is longer than wide, and the labium reaches to between the hind legs. The ocelli, which are on the same plane as the clypeus, are sunk in depressions, and face outwards towards the eyes; they are closer to each other than to the eyes on each side. The crown is slightly produced anteriorly, and is of an even width throughout. The width of the pronotum is greater than its length, the anterior border is three-sided, and the posterior border straight. The scutellum is approximately half the length of the pronotum. The tegmina, which are steeply tectiform and have very narrow appendices, reach well beyond the end of the abdomen. The hind tibiae have four rows of long slender spines (Evans (1936).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [70]

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