Species Austroasca malvae (Evans, 1942)

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Regional Maps

• Empoasca malvae Evans, J.W. 1942. Some new leafhoppers from Australia and Fiji. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 54(5): 49-51 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Ho. 5233 ♂ (coll.: 12.iv.1942, A. May, on Malva parviflora), Gayndah, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Austroasca (Austroasca) malvae (Evans, 1942). —
  Lower, H.F. 1952. A revision of Australian species previously referred to the genus Empoasca (Cicadellidae: Homoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 76(5-6): 190-221 [214]
• Austroasca malvae (Evans, 1942) [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 malvae Evans, 1942. —
  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, with its bold brown markings, is similar in general appearance to A. histrionicula (Kirkaldy). It is found on Malva sp in SE Queensland with a single record from western New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder (associated flora: Malva parviflora Linnaeus [MALVACEAE]).

Associated Flora References

Evans, J.W. 1942. Some new leafhoppers from Australia and Fiji. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 54(5): 49-51 [49] (Malva parviflora)

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface green; frontoclypeus yellowish with a broad median longitudinal white stripe; vertex and crown pale greenish white with four longitudinal brown stripes, two of which border the eyes; eyes brown. Pronotum greenish yellow with three greenish white markings lying close to the anterior margin. Scutellum yellowish with a median longitudinal white stripe extending from the anterior margin as far as the centre. Tegmen hyaline, greenish yellow with a white oval area in the clavus; apical third brown, veins pale green. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale yellowish green; legs green. Male genitalia almost identical with those of Empoasca pulcherrima [= Austroasca histrionicula (Kirkaldy)] (Evans 1942).

Lower (1952) provided a comprehensive redescription (p. 214) and illustrations of the male genitalia (p.199).

 

ID Keys

Lower 1952: 211–212

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. Some new leafhoppers from Australia and Fiji. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 54(5): 49-51 [49]

Lower, H.F. 1952. A revision of Australian species previously referred to the genus Empoasca (Cicadellidae: Homoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 76(5-6): 190-221 [199, 214]

 

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