Species Austroagalloides grisea Evans, 1936

Austroagalloides grisea Evans, adult male.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Austroagalloides grisea Evans, adult female.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Austroagalloides grisea Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
• Austroagalloides agalliae 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.
• Austroagalloides flavus Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype MMUS ♀, King George Sound, Western Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [172] (synonymy of A. agalliae and A. flavus)

Introduction

This species is one of the most widely distributed of the genus, if collection records and identifications are correct. A revision of the genus is needed to confirm these identifications. There is a distinct difference in colour and size between the sexes, the females usually having less red on the wing veins and being up to 50% larger than the males.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Male. Biscuit colour; eyes brown, the vertex with black markings that may extend on to the frons; antennal ridges oblique; ocelli facing outwards, the eyes sunk in slight depressions. Pronotum pale dirty yellow with transverse raised black markings posteriorly and an irregular pattern of small black markings behind the eyes. The anterior border of the pronotum is sunk below the level of the hind margin of the head. Scutellum smooth, pale yellowish. Tegmen hyaline, veins pink with raised dots. Thorax ventral surface black. Legs whitish with light brown markings. Abdomen ventral surface black, the posterior border of each segment yellow; genital segments brown. Length 5.2 mm, head width 1.5 mm (Evans 1936, of A. agalliae)

Female. Clypeus, maxillary plates and lorae white; frons pinkish yellow; the vertical portion of the vertex pink, the dorsal part, or crown, yellowish. Pronotum pinkish grey, anteriorly smooth; posteriorly with raised black transverse markings. Scutellum grey, smooth. Tegmen hyaline, veins and hind margin bright cherry red; costal margin colourless; veins with raised spots incorporated in them and not lying at the sides; appendix small. Thorax and abdomen, ventral surface, and legs, pale yellowish white. Length 7 mm, head width 2.2 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 [71–72]

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