Species Balclutha yanchepensis (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eusceloscopus yanchepensis Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [147].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll: 11.1935), Yanchep, Western Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Balclutha yanchepensis (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [252]

 

Introduction

This unusually dark reddish brown species has been recorded at widely separated localities around the coastline of Australia, including Tasmania. There are no records from the Northern Territory or South Australia but that may be an artefact of collecting. This is the only species in the genus endemic to Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Jarrah Forest (JF), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head reddish brown, eyes black, ocelli red. Crown of even width throughout. Pronotum and scutellum reddish brown. Tegmen hyaline brown but for the two cells adjoining the appendix which are smoky hyaline; veins pink. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs yellowish brown. Length 4 mm (Evans 1942).

Colour brown, or reddish brown, ocelli margined with pink; forewings with appendix and first two apical cells hyaline fuscous, veins pink. Head as wide as or slightly narrower than pronotum. Length: ♂ 3.8–4.0 mm, ♀ 4.0–4.2 mm (Knight 1987).
Knight (1987) described and figured the male genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Knight 1987: 1180

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [147]

Knight, W.J. 1987. Leafhoppers of the grass-feeding genus Balclutha (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) in the Pacific region. Journal of Natural History 21: 1173-1224 [1197–1198]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	20-Oct-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)