Species Austroagalloides brunnea Evans, 1936

Austroagalloides brunnea Evans, adult female

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Austrogalloides brunnea Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [72].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (coll.: A.L. Tonnoir), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

Introduction

This species is distributed primarily in the SE corner of Australia although there are two records in ASCU from the Carnarvon region of Western Australia. A revision of the genus may find that more than one species is included.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Pale yellowish brown, eyes grey. The vertex is not at right angles to the crown and the ocelli, which are sunk in slight depressions, are visible from above. Pronotum pale yellowish brown. Scutellum pale yellowish brown with two brown median spots and two large triangular brown markings against the anterior margin. Tegmen yellowish hyaline, veins yellow with small raised dots on the actual veins; appendix very narrow. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs pale brownish yellow. Length 6.1 mm, head width 2 mm (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 [72]

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