Species Hackeriana glauca Evans, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hackeriana glauca Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [68].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Adelaide, South Australia.

 

Introduction

Although originally described from Adelaide, South Australia, most subsequent records of this species are from the eastern parts of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration pale greenish yellow. Eyes brownish red. The white line on the apical margin of the head is bordered narrowly on each side with brown. Crown with a shallow median longitudinal depression; ocelli nearer to the eyes on each side than to the apex of the head. Tegmen pale yellowish hyaline, veins pale green. Length 7.5 mm. Head width 2.5 mm (Evans 1937).

The species is probably pale green in life.

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [68]

 

History of changes

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