Species Doowella wanungarae (Evans, 1966)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Woodella wanungarae Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [87].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 1958, T. Woodward, in moss), Mt Wanungara, McPherson Ranges, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Doowella wanungarae (Evans, 1966). —
  McKamey, S.H. 2006. Further new genus group names in the Cicadellidae (Hemiptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108(3): 502-510 [508]

 

Introduction

This odd little beast is flightless with curiously angulate tegmina which are brown and punctate with some vague transverse striping. The type specimen was collected in moss on Mt Wanungara in the McPherson Ranges of SE Queensland and specimens have been collected from other mountainous regions of that state.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: moss-feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration brown, the tegmen with a transverse whitish band posteriorly. Length, wingless ♂, 3.4 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 [87]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		27-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)