Subspecies Eurinopsyche obscurata clementi (Distant, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurystheus clementi Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal Notes. xxxviii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 18-32 [19].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, Nicol Bay (=Nickol Bay), Western Australia [20°39'S 116°52'E].

Generic Combinations

• Eurinopsyche clementi (Distant, 1906). —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [122]
• Eurinopsyche obscurata clementi (Distant, 1906). —
  Lallemand, V. 1963. Revision des Fulgoridae (Homoptera). Deuxième partie. Faunes Asiatique et Australienne. Memoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 2nd Series 75: 1-99 [64]

Introduction

The identity and status of this subspecies needs to be confirmed by examination of the primary type material from "Nicol Bay" Western Australia, presumably Nickol Bay which is in the Pilbara district. Nagai & Porion (1996) listed E. clementi as a new synonym of E. obscurata but, without any evidence presented, this synonymy is not accepted here.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Pilbara (PIL)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head dull greyish brown; pronotum and mesonotum greyish ochraceous; abdomen, body beneath, and legs pale testaceous; anterior tibiae annulated with pale fuscous; head beneath at base paler and more ochraceous; clypeus with transverse fuscous striations; tegmina grey, opaque, the venation slightly darker and here and there tinged with fuscous, an inner claval streak, about six discal spots beyond middle, a subapical series of very small spots, and some speckles on costal margin piceous brown; wings entirely greyish white, the venation slightly stramineous; cephalic process slightly recurved, from in front of eyes about as long as abdomen, somewhat narrowly longitudinally channelled above on apical half, a little widened at apex, undulated above for a little beyond middle; rostrum not extending beyond half the length of abdomen; posterior tibiae with four spines, the basal one small and blunt. Long., excl. tegm., 17.5 mm; exp. tegm. 34 mm (Distant 1906).

ID Keys

Lallemand 1963: 64

Diagnosis References

Lallemand, V. 1963. Revision des Fulgoridae (Homoptera). Deuxième partie. Faunes Asiatique et Australienne. Memoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 2nd Series 75: 1-99 [64]

General References

Nagai, S. & Porion, T. 1996. Fulgoridae 2. Catalogue illustré des faunes asiatique et australienne. 2 rue André Mellenne, 60280 Venette, France : Sciences Nat pp. 80. [16]

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