Species Austroagalloides maculata Evans, 1942

Austroagalloides maculata Evans, adult female.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Austroagalloides maculata Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [151].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites).

Introduction

This species is found in the inland areas of SW Western Australia. Nothing is known of its biology.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Mallee (MAL)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head orange yellow, eyes red. Crown slightly wider against the eyes than in the centre. Pronotum deep orange yellow flecked with small raised transverse black markings. Scutellum orange, with a few small raised black spots. Tegmen pale hyaline orange yellow with numerous raised dark brown spots lying especially along the veins; apically black. Thorax and abdomen, ventral surface orange yellow. Length 5 mm (Evans 1942).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [151]

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