Species Carvaka elegantula (Evans, 1966)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Exitianellus elegantula Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [229].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K68460 ♂ (coll.: iii.1962, D.K. McAlpine; the locality is given in the original description as "Orford" but the label states "Otford" which is a small settlement south of Sydney), Otford, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Carvaka elegantula (Evans, 1966). —
  Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2007. Genus Carvaka Distant in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 46(2): 89-95 [93]

 

Introduction

This beautifully coloured species is rarely collected but has been found along the eastern seaboard from near Mackay in Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales. It fits into Viraktamath's (1998) clava species group in which the males have an elongated preatrium bearing a long ventrocaudal process.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face yellow cream with two round black spots on upper margin against ocelli. Apical margin cream, sometimes with pink or orange. Vertex cream with dark brown or black broad, transverse band level with anterior margins of eyes, slightly curved anteriorly over median section. Pronotum ivory on anterior half, dark brown on posterior half with black patch at lateral margin. Scutellum cream. Tegmen unicolorous, golden brown, transparent. Costal margin sometimes brown to midlength (dark brown in only known male which also has veins darker than cells) (Fletcher & Semeraro 2007).

Fletcher and Semeraro (2007) described and figured the male genitalia as well as the female ovipositor.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher & Semeraro 2007: 90

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. & Semeraro, L. 2007. Genus Carvaka Distant in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 46(2): 89-95 [92, 93]

 

General References

Viraktamath, C.A. 1998. A revision of the leafhopper tribe Paraboloponini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Selenocephalinae) in the Indian subcontinent. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Entomology) 67(2): 153–207 [158]

 

History of changes

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