Species Batracomorphus translucidus (Evans, 1942)
Compiler and date details
14 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Eurinoscopus transulcidus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [145] [original spelling].
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
- Batrachomorphus translucidus (Evans, 1942). —
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [207]
Introduction
This species was regarded as a nomen dubium by Knight (1983) because it is based on a female holotype.
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 yellow, eyes black, frontal and epicranial sutures indistinct. Crown yellow, slightly wider in the centre than against the eyes. Pronotum and scutellum concolorous with the crown. Tegmen opaque, pale green with ill-defined yellow and brown areas; veins green, apex of tegmen pale hyaline brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs yellow. Length 4 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 [145]
General References
Knight, W.J. 1983. The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian Regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 47(2): 27-210 [206] (nomen dubium)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 23-Apr-2014 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |