Species Austroagalloides wrighti Evans, 1936

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• Austroagalloides wrighti 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 SAMA ♀ (coll.: G. Wright), Karoonda, South Australia.

Introduction

This species is only known from the type locality, Karoonda in the mallee country of SE South Australia. A note with the original description states that it is larger and broader than other species described in the genus at the time.

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head anteriorly pale yellowish brown but for the frons which is a somewhat darker brown; vertex and crown marked with an irregular pattern of yellow and black; eyes dark brown; frons swollen; ocelli facing towards the eyes; hind margin of frons distinct; eyes very prominent. Pronotum anteriorly brownish yellow with irregular black markings, posteriorly grey with raised transverse black markings. Scutellum rugose, marked with a pattern of light and dark brown. Tegmen hyaline, with numerous cross veins and round brown spots lying alongside the main veins; appendix narrow. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface brown. Legs marked with a pattern of light and dark brown. Length 7 mm, head width 3.5 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 [73]

History of changes