Species Austrocerus angustatus (Evans, 1942)
Austrocerus angustatus (Evans), adult female.
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Species Austrocerus angustatus (Evans, 1942)
Compiler and date details
28 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Gnatia angustata Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [150].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: 11-21.i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia.Type locality references:
Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (notes on R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).
Generic Combinations
- Austrocerus angustatus (Evans, 1942). —
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [69]
Introduction
This small narrow species is only known from the type series collected at Dedari, Western Australia in 1936.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Coolgardie (COO)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head ventral surface, anteclypeus pale brown, lora maxillary plates and the vertex anteriorly whitish. Frontoclypeus chestnut brown mottled with dark brown. Crown medially dark grey, laterally pinkish; eyes dark brown. Pronotum anterolaterally pinkish yellow, otherwise grey. Scutellum pinkish brown, muscle impressions brown. Tegmen hyaline grey with a dark brown fascia; veins pale brown bordered with a double row of fine hairs. Thorax ventral surface black. Abdomen ventral surface yellow. Length 5 mm (Evans 1942).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 67
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [150]
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [67]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |