Species Eutartessus gressitti F. Evans, 1981

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• Eutartessus gressitti 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 AM ♂ (coll.: 18.ii.1961, L. & M. Gressitt), Mt Glorious, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This large and elegantly coloured leafhopper is found in the SE Queensland and NE New South Wales coastal regions. It is presumably named after Dr Lin Gressitt, of the Bishop Museum, 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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Golden brown. Face with a black band posteriorly, dark brown in centre. Pronotum and scutellum golden brown. Length ♂ 7–8 mm, ♀ 9 mm, While the male genitalia of this species resemble those of the type species in general features, they differ from them in having the pygophore dorsally emarginate and the VIIth sternite of the female differently shaped (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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