Species Deltocephalus viridellus Evans, 1966

Museums

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• Deltocephalus viridellus Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [242].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: vi.1962, 6500 ft, J.W. Evans), Mt Kosciusko, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species, which is found along the eastern mountain range and slopes of New South Wales, remains to be placed in its true genus. The shortened tegmina and the intrusion of the frontoclypeus onto the vertex on either side is reminiscent of species of Alodeltocephalus but the subgenital plates lack the characteristic process found in species of that genus.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration greenish yellow. Face of head, anteclypeus, lora and maxillary plates, pale brownish yellow; lora and anteclypeus posteriorly, margined with brown. Postclypeus yellow with transverse black stripes. Crown longer in the centre than against the sides and almost equal to the combined length of the pronotum and scutellum, pale greenish yellow, with a triangular frontal area bordered anteriorly by the curved hind margins of the postclypeus, posteriorly by a transverse postfrontal suture. Tegmen pale hyaline greenish yellow; veins concolorous with the rest of the tegmen. Length ♂, 3 mm, ♀ 4 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [242–243]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
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