Species Brunotartessus fulvus (Walker, 1851)

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• Bythoscopus fulvus Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [866].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (presented by the Rev. Augustus Beaufort), Tasmania.
• Bythoscopus latifrons Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [869].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (presented by Haslar Hospital), New Holland.
• Bythoscopus transversus Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [869].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (Two syntypes presented by the Haslar Hospital. One syntype from Capt Parry's collection), New Holland.
• Bythoscopus semicitrinus Walker, F. 1858. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq. London : British Museum pp. 1-117. [105].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (type locality is clearly in error), "Amazon regions".
• Bythoscopus signifrons Walker, F. 1858. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq. London : British Museum pp. 1-117. [106].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1 ♂ (lacking abdomen), 2 ♀, New South Wales.
• Tartessus australicus Spångberg, J. 1878. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 34(9): 3-14 [3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♂, ♀, quantity unknown, Australia orientalis et borealis.
• Tartessus subniger Signoret, V.A. 1880. Essai sur les Jassides Stål, Fieb, et plus particulièrement sur les Acocéphalides Puton. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 10: 41-70, 189-212, 347-366 [350].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, quantity unknown (Signoret collection), Nouvelle-Hollande.
• Tartessus syrtidis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [341].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: xi.1904, on sandhills, bred from Eucalyptus), Bundaberg, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 19(9): 479-504 [494] (synonymy of B. latifrons)
• Signoret, V.A. 1880. Essai sur les Jassides Stål, Fieb, et plus particulièrement sur les Acocéphalides Puton. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 10: 41-70, 189-212, 347-366 [348] (synonymy of T. australicus)
• Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [109] (synonymy of T. transversus, B. semicitrinus, B. signifrons, T. subniger, T. syrtidis)

 

Generic Combinations

• Brunotartessus fulvus (Walker, 1851). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [130]
• Tartessus fulvus (Walker, 1851). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [193]

 

Introduction

This is a common and widespread species in mainland Australia and is also quite distinctive in colouring with its pale head and thorax with dark wings.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Ranges (CR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus spp. [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Testaceo fulvus; caput nigro varium; pectus nigrum, fulvo bimaculatum; abdomen nigro notatum, subtus nigrum; pedes nigro varii; alae posticae sublimpidae, apice subfuscae.
Testaceous tawny: head extremely short, as broad as the chest, slightly convex in front, more concave behind; crown slightly widening on each side, its length in the middle not more than one twelfth of the breadth; a black band on the front, which is transversely striated; face flat, roughly punctured, its disk surrounded by a black oval, which encloses two black stripes, sending forth parallel branches on each side; plates on each side of the epistoma marked with black; chest transversely striated; shield very convex along the fore border, slightly concave behind; breast black, with a tawny spot on each side; abdomen with blackish marks along each side, black beneath; oviduct ferruginous; fore-thighs streaked with black beneath; middle-thighs black at the base; hind-thighs black along half the length; tips of hind-shanks black; hind-wings almost colourless, brownish towards the tips. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 7 lines (Walker 1851).

 

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [866]

 

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
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