Species Katipo pallescens (Evans, 1947)

Katipo pallescens (Evans), adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anipo pallescens Evans, J.W. 1947. Some new eurymelids from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 71(2): 225-227 [226].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: v.1945, D.C. Swan), Sogeri, Papua New Guinea.

Generic Combinations

• Katipo pallescens (Evans, 1947). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [45]

Introduction

The disjunct distribution of this species may indicate that more than one species is represented. The species was originally described from Papua New Guinea and has subsequently been recorded in the far north of the Northern Territory although there are also records from New South Wales which need to be verified.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Face with maxillary plates, lora and frontoclypeus laterally ivory partially suffused with apricot; anteclypeus, the frontoclypeus medially and the vertex deep coffee brown with pale oval markings. Crown and pronotum pale greyish brown mottled laterally with dark brown. Scutellum anterior lateral angles dark brown, the remainder pale brown. Tegmen pale hyaline brown with evenly distributed circular colourless hyaline areas. Thorax ventral surface and legs marked with a pattern of pale and dark brown. Length 5.5 mm (Evans 1947).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1947. Some new eurymelids from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 71(2): 225-227 [226–227]

History of changes