Species Brunotartessus eldoensis F. Evans, 1981

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• Brunotartessus eldoensis Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [131].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 12.i.1971, T. Weir & A. Allwood), Eldo, Northern Territory.

 

Introduction

This species, which has more distinctive pale and dark brown colouring than most species of the genus, is only known from the northern coastline of the Northern Territory.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Darwin Coastal (DAC)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Ampelocissus sp. [VITACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Face pale yellowish with black markings, developed more extensively in male. Crown pale grayish or yellow. Pronotum grayish with 6 or 8 small brown anterior markigns. Scutellum concolorous with pronotum. Tegmen pale vitreous brown. Ventral surface of thorax and abdomen yellow (Evans 1981). The species can be distinguished from others in the genus by the shape of the aedeagus which was figured by Evans (1981: 129).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [131]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED