Species Batracomorphus elegans (Evans, 1936)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurinoscopus elegans Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [76].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: A.M. Lea), Hobart, Tasmania.

 

Generic Combinations

• Batrachomorphus elegans (Evans, 1936) [incorrect subsequent spelling of Batracomorphus]. —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [205]

 

Introduction

This small pale brown species has been recorded from sites in Tasmania and from the southern coastal areas of Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Anterior area of face reddish brown; pronotum with three longitudinal reddish bands on each side of midline; scutellum with basal angles reddish. Male pygophore processes slender, directed posteriorly, lamellately expanded distally and tapering abruptly to acute apex, dorsal margin of expansion mildly serrate. Styles with apical process expanded over distal half, tapering to short acute dorsally hooked apex. Aedeagus simple; shaft directed dorsally, curving anterodorsally from midlength; gonopore extending approximately two thirds length of shaft; anterior incision extending slightly more basad than gonopore. Length ♂ 5.5 mm (Knight 1983).

 

ID Keys

Knight 1983: 37–50

 

Diagnosis References

Knight, W.J. 1983. The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian Regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 47(2): 27-210 [99–101]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
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