Species Austroagalloides obliquus (Walker, 1858)

Austroagalloides obliquus (Walker), adult female.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bythoscopus obliquus Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [267].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown (presented by Rev. T. Ewing; holotype by monotypy), Tasmania.

Generic Combinations

• Austroagalloides obliquus (Walker, 1858). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [173]

Introduction

This species, originally described from Tasmania, seems to be associated with higher altitude areas of southeastern Australia. No specific locality records within Tasmania exist.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Pale testaceous. Scutellum with three blackish dots in front and one hindward. Wings vitreous; veins pale. Length of the
body 2½ lines ; of the wings 6 lines (Walker 1858).

General coloration evenly brownish yellow with no other colour markings. Labrum narrow; anteclypeus parallel-sided. Crown wider against the eyes than in the centre, ocelli not visible in dorsal aspect (Evans 1966).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [173]

Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [267]

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