Species Ishidaella angustata (Evans, 1938)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cicadella angustata Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [3].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: H. Hacker), National Park, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Ishidaella angustata (Evans, 1938). —
  Young, D.A. 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [128]
• Kolla angustata (Evans, 1938). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [147]

 

Introduction

This species has been recorded from the eastern parts of the continent from SE Queensland to Tasmania as well as from King George Sound and Albany in southern Western Australia. Whether all these records are true I. angustata needs to be confirmed through examination of the male genitalia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head facially pale yellowish brown with a central dark brown stripe on the frontoclypeus and with a series of narrow transverse brown stripes laterally. Crown of head and pronotum pale yellowish brown with dark brown markings. Scutellum marked with a pattern of dark brown and yellowish brown. Tegmen hyaline brown or dark greenish black, the costal border narrowly white; venation indistinct. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface ochraceous. Length 8 mm (Evans 1938).

Young (1986) provides illustrations of the male genitalia.

 

ID Keys

Young 1986: 128

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [3]

Young, D.A. 1986. Taxonomic study of the Cicadellinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) Part 3. Old World Cicadellini. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service 281: 1-639 [124, 128]

 

History of changes

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