Species Austroagalloides moorei Evans, 1977

Austroagalloides moorei Evans, adult female.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Austrogalloides moorei Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [111].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: vii.1974, K.M. Moore), Ord River, Diversion Dam, Western Australia.

Introduction

This species is distributed iprimarily n the north and north west of the continent although a specimen from Tabbimoble in the NE corner of New South Wales is present in the J.W. Evans collection of AM.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Overall coloration bright yellow. Crown of head, bearing the ocelli, transversely convex and steeply declivous. Lateral muscle impressions on scutellum mottled brown. Length ♂ 6 mm; ♀ 6.8–7 mm (Evans 1977).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [111]

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