Species Austrotartessus muiri F. Evans, 1981

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• Austrotartessus muiri Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [143].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: ix.1919, F. Muir), Babinda, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This pale yellowish brown species is found in coastal areas of Queensland from the wet tropics in the north to southern Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Coloration pale mottled brown. Face pale yellowish brown. Crown, pronotum and scutellum pale mottled yellowish brown. Tegmen pale hyaline brown; veins brown with pale bars. Male genitalia: pygophore with a dorsal V-shaped indentation; aedeagus U-shaped, apically broad distally, with a posterior hook-like extension and a pair of apical spine-like processes. Xth segment with a pair of very small processes arising from the base. Length ♂ 7 mm (Evans 1981).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [143]

 

History of changes

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