Species Exitianus evansi McKamey and Hicks, 2007

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eutettix pallida Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [14] [junior homonym; of Eutettix pallidus Osborn 1926].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀, Stewart River, Queensland.
• Exitianus evansi McKamey, S.H. & Hicks, A.L. 2007. A new subspecies, replacement names, and spelling fixations for species of Deltocephalinae and Macropsinae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 109(4): 930–937 [932] [replacement name].

 

Generic Combinations

• Exitianus pallidus (Evans, 1938). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [228]

 

Introduction

This species is not true Exitianus but belongs in a separate undescribed genus along with five undescribed endemic species. The species is found across the tropical north of the continent.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface pale yellow or brown; muscle impressions paler in colour than the rest of the frontoclypeus; eyes dark brown. Crown slightly wider in the middle than against the eyes, with a faint dark brown transverse stripe. Pronotum pale yellowish brown. Scutellum yellow. Tegmen, including the veins, transparent. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale yellow. Length 6 mm (Evans 1938, as Eutettix pallida).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [14]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		25-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		30-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)