Species Austroasca infulata Lower, 1953

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• Austroasca (Austroasca) infulata Lower, H.F. 1953. A new species of Austroasca Lower (Cicadellidae, Homoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 78(1-2): 33-34 [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 28.viii.1951, H.F. Lower, feeding and breeding on saltbush, Atriplex nummularia Lindl), Wild Horse Plains, South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Austroasca infulata Lower, 1953 [Austroasca Lower was synonymised with Empoasca Walsh by Evans (1966) who listed all the included species as new combinations. Ghauri (1967) regarded the two genera as being separate and this was accepted by Evans (1977). However, the reinstated combinations were not listed by either author and first reappeared in Day & Fletcher (1994)]. —
  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1224]
• Empoasca infulata (Lower, 1953). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [264]

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the type locality in South Australia and distinguishable from other species in the genus only by reference to the structures of the male genitalia.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder (associated flora: Atriplex nummularia Lindley [CHENOPODIACEAE]).

Associated Flora References

Lower, H.F. 1953. A new species of Austroasca Lower (Cicadellidae, Homoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 78(1-2): 33-34 [34] (Atriplex nummularia)

 

Diagnosis

General coloration green. Crown of head obscurely patterned with light shades of green. Tegmen pale green tending to brownish apically. Length ♂ 3.3 mm (Evans 1966).

Lower (1953) gave a comprehensive description and provided figures of the male genitalia.

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [264]

Lower, H.F. 1953. A new species of Austroasca Lower (Cicadellidae, Homoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 78(1-2): 33-34 [33–34]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
17-Feb-2015	Empoascini Distant, 1908	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
13-Oct-2014	Empoascini Distant, 1908	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED