Species Dunioa picturata (Evans, 1966)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Empoasca picturata Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [266].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K68461 ♂, Darwin, Northern Territory.

 

Generic Combinations

• Dunioa picturata (Evans, 1966). —
  Dworakowska, I. 1995. Szara gen. nov. and some other oriental Empoascini (Insecta: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Entomologische Abhandlungen. Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 56(2): 129-160 [137]

 

Introduction

This small brownish species has a median black spot at the front of the head, black stripes on the face and black longitudinal striping on the thorax. It is recorded only from the type locality of Darwin, Northern Territory, where it has been collected at light trap.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head steeply longitudinally convex, whitish, with a median longitudinal black stripe extending the entire length of the face and two broad lateral black stripes extending anteriorly from the eyes on each side. Crown of head whitish with a median anterior small black spot. Pronotum and scutellum pale yellowish with a pair of longitudinal black stripes which continue onto the clavus of the tegmina. Tegmina otherwise pale hyaline with a dark brown anterior costal stripe, apically smoky; veins ante-apically brown. Length ♂ 2.8, ♀ 3 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 [266]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)