Species Eutartessus cantrelli F. Evans, 1981

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• Eutartessus cantrelli Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [148].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 6.ix.1966, B. Cantrell), Crystal Cascades, nr Cairns, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This relatively large and elegantly coloured species is known from far north Queensland although a single specimen in ASCU is from Dorrigo on the New South Wales north coast indicating that the species is probably widely spread in rainforest areas along the Queensland coastline. It was presumably named after Dr Bryan Cantrell, who is a Queensland dipterist and who collected the holotype specimen.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Golden brown. Tegmen vitreous, pale brown, costal and anal margins dark brown. Length ♂ 9–10 mm, ♀ 9–11 mm. This species is distinguished by the characteristic shape of the aedeagus (Evans 1981).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [148]

 

History of changes

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