Species Bakeriana nigra Evans, 1966

Bakeriana nigra Evans, adult, pale form

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Bakeriana nigra Evans, adult, dark form.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bakeriana nigra Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: x.1958, R.A. O'Brien), Innisfail, Queensland.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Hampton (HAM), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Face of head brown, densely mottled with dark brown except for the maxillary plates and lora which are grey mottled with brown. Crown of head, pronotum, scutellum and tegmen concolorous with the head. Tegmen mottled hyaline brown with numerous irregular, and some oval, pale areas. A pale form is also known. Length ♂ 4.8 mm (Evans 1966).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [35]

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