Species Austroagalloides rosea Evans, 1936

Austroagalloides rosea Evans, adult female.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Austroagalloides rosea (Evans), adult male.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Austroagalloides rosea 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), Leura, New South Wales.
• Austroagalloides nigra Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [73].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂, Leura, New South Wales.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers from Tasmania and Queensland. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1941: 27-30 [30]

Introduction

This species is widespread and reasonably common in SE Australia from SE Queensland to Tasmania. The male and female were originally described as two species since they are very different in appearance, the female being rosy orange-brown while the male is extensively marked with black on the head, thorax and veins of the tegmen.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Flinders (FLI), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Male. Head anteriorly up to the antennal ledges, yellow; vertex and crown black; eyes reddish-brown, ocelli yellow. Pronotum anteriorly yellow, with black maculations, posteriorly yellow suffused with black, and with raised transverse black markings. Scutellum smooth, black. Tegmen yellowish hyaline, black apically, veins black with raised dots. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs yellow. Length 6.1 mm, head width 1.5 mm (Evans 1936, of A. nigra).

Female. Head pale yellow, eyes dark brown. Pronotum parchment colour, with transverse raised black markings on the posterior two thirds. Scutellum yellowish brown, with two median black spots and two larger black markings lying against the anterior margin. Tegmen hyaline, suffused with pink; veins pink, with small raised dots lying along both sides of every vein. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs, pale brownish yellow. Length 8 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, 73]

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