Species Hackeriana elegantula Evans, 1969

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hackeriana elegantula Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [749].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: iii.1836, C. Darwin), King George Sound, Western Australia.
• Hackeriana elangatula Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [105] [subsequent misspelling].

 

Introduction

This species is distinctive in being smaller and narrower than other species of the genus. It is known from a few localities in SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration evenly pale yellowish with, or without, pale maculations. Crown of head narrowly acute in ♀, less so in ♂. Ocelli in ♂ equidistant between eyes and apex of head; in ♀ nearer to eyes than to apex of head. Tegminal veins with small, raised, marginal spots. Ovipositor in ♀ not extending as far as apex of folded tegmina. Length ♂ ♀, 6 mm; greatest width across eyes, 2 mm (Evans 1969).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [749–750]

 

History of changes

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