Genus Bulotartessus F. Evans, 1981

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• Bulotartessus Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [134].

  Type species:

   Bulotartessus cooloolensis F. Evans, 1981 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This genus currently includes only two species from Queensland. Evans (1981) placed B. ambiguus F. Evans into the genus on the basis of certain genitalia features but expressed doubts about this placement because the type species is considerably smaller than B. ambiguus and the head structure is quite different, B. ambiguus having a broad, expansive crown distinctly longer medially while B. cooloolensis has the crown narrow and more or less of even width throughout. Such variation between congeneric species is unusual in genera of the Tartessini.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Yellow and brown insects ranging in length from 6.3–12 mm. Crown either of equal length with eyes, longest against eyes, or roundly produced and longest in centre. Crown and thorax bright yellow. Tegmen pale or dark hyaline brown, apically smoky, sometimes with 1 or 2 whitish transverse fasciae; veins pale or dark brown. Male genitalia: pygophore proximally parallel-sided, narrowing posteriorly; aedeagus columnar, parallel-sided or broadest at apex; Xth segment with a pair of U-shaped processes arising from the base. Female VIIth sternum, sides of hind margin curved, medially notched (Evans 1981).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1981: 115–118

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [134]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)