Species Austroagalloides karoondae Evans, 1936

Austroagalloides karoondae Evans, adult female from WA

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Austroagalloides karoondae 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 SAMA ♀, Murat Bay, South Australia.

Introduction

This, the type species of the genus, has a Bassian distribution with records from southern Western Australia and the SE of South Australia. Evans (1936) notes a colour variant from Karoonda in the SE of South Australia in which the apices of the tegmina are black.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Pale yellowish brown suffused with pink; eyes reddish brown; frons convex, ocelli large, situated at the apices of the lateral margins of the frons. Pronotum grey, the anterior border pale yellowish brown; the entire pronotum covered with raised transverse black markings. Scutellum pale yellowish brown, the apex pink and the anterior lateral angles brown; anteriorly a few brown maculations. Tegmen transparent, grey, dotted with raised round brown spots that do not follow the course of the veins; veins pale yellow, appendix lacking. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs pale yellowish brown suffused with pink. Length 7.5 mm, head width 2.5 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]

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