Species Austrocerus glaucus (Evans, 1942)
Compiler and date details
28 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Tumocerus glaucus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [149].
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 glaucus (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 yellow species with brown abdominal tergites and two brown spots on the anterior margin of the head is only known from the type locality, Dedari in Western Australia.
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 pale yellowish green. Crown of even width throughout, narrowly pale yellowish green against the eyes, medially pink with two marginal large black spots; eyes red. Pronotum anterolaterally pale yellowish green, medially pink. Scutellum apricot. Tegmen proximally, membrane and veins pale yellowish green, distally hyaline brown, veins dark brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs pale yellowish green. Length 5 mm (Evans 1942).
Webb (1983) provides description and figures of the male genitalia.
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 [149]
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [69]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |