Species Bulotartessus cooloolensis F. Evans, 1981

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• Bulotartessus cooloolensis Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [135].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 13.iii.1970, E. Dahms), Cooloola, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is significantly smaller than its congenor and lacks the expansive head and distinct colouring. Both species are distributed in far North Queensland, but this species extends further south to the southeastern coastal regions of that state.

 

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)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Yellow, brown and white. head and thorax yellow. Crown, bearing ocelli, of even length. Tegmen, in part, pale hyaline brown, partly white, apex broadly smoky brown and with brown markings at apex of claval suture and against costal border; veins dark brown. Distinguished by colour characteristics and by the shape of the aedeagus (Evans 1981).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [135]

 

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)