Species Borditartessus latus (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus latus 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.: 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] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Borditartessus latus (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [146]

 

Introduction

This small yellowish species was described from Dedari in the arid Coolgardie region of Western Australia but it is also known from the Pilbara region.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Pilbara (PIL)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface, frontoclypeus darker in colour than the rest of the face with a transverse dark brown bar between the ocelli and the antennae, eyes black. Crown consisting entirely of the vertex, wider against the eyes than in the centre, rugose. Pronotum pale brown. Scutellum dark brown with very dark brown muscle impressions. Tegmen pale hyaline brown, veins brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs pale 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

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