Species Exitianus selbyi (Evans, 1938)

Museums

Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV ♀, Mutchilba, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1207].

 

Generic Combinations

• Exitianus selbyi (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, which is represented in collections by a dozen specimens from tropical parts of Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Austraila, is not a true Exitianus. The male genitalia indicate that it belongs in a new genus along with a second species from the Northern Territory.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface pale whitish yellow but for the eyes which are red, the anteclypeus, frontoclypeus anteriorly and the muscle impressions, which are coffee coloured and two transverse black markings on the frontoclypeus posteriorly. Crown of head pale yellow with two pairs of transverse black markings that do not reach as far as the eyes laterally, nor as far as the coronal suture medially, nearly as wide against the eyes as in the middle; ocelli marginal, visible in dorsal aspect. Pronotum grey with three small dark brown markings lying behind each eye. Scutellum yellowish grey with a dark brown V-shaped marking close to each anterior angle. Tegmen white, brown apically, and with brown areas between the veins; veins dark brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs marked with a pattern in yellow, pale and dark brown. Ovipositor sheath in the female dark brown with white spines. Length 7 mm (Evans 1938).

 

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

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