Species Austrotartessus flavus (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus flavus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [156].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: xii.1935, R.E. Turner), Yanchep, 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] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Austrotartessus flavus (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [141]

 

Introduction

A pale yellow-brown species originally described from the Swan Valley in Western Australia but now also recorded along the eastern coastline of Australia from the wet tropics in North Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Sydney Basin (SB), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface pale apricot, ocelli red, eyes dark brown. Crown pale apricot consisting entirely of the vertex. Pronotum and scutellum concolorous with the crown. Tegmen hyaline apricot. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs apricot, bases of the spines dark brown. Length 6 mm (Evans 1942).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [156]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)