Species Epipsychidion whitteni Evans, 1969

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• Epipsychidion whitteni Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [749].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K68748 ♂ (coll.: ii.1966, M. Whitten), Bruny Island, Tasmania.

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the type locality and is based on four male specimens. It was presumably named after Dr Max Whitten who collected all four specimens.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration pale brown. Face of head, maxillary plates, genae and antennal ledges, pale yellowish brown; remainder of face dark yellowish brown. Postclypeus transversely ridged, frontal region punctate, ocelli facing forwards, neither facial nor on crown. Crown of head between eyes of even length throughout, pale mottled brown. Pronotum slightly declivous anteriorly, sometimes with four obscure longitudinal pale stripes margined with brown. Tegmen vitreous, veins dark brown with raised spots. Length ♂ 4 mm, ♀ 5.2 mm; greatest width ♂, ♀ 1.8 mm (Evans 1969).

The species was redescribed and illustrated by Stevens (1990).

 

ID Keys

Stevens 1990: 658

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [749]

Stevens, M.M. 1990. A revision of the Genus Epipsychidion Kirkaldy (Homoptera : Cicadelloidea : Cicadellidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 655-664 [661, 663]

 

History of changes

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