Species Ledracotis gunnensis Evans, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ledracotis gunnensis Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 7. — Stenocotidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 157-164 [162].

  Type data:

   Holotype MMUS ♀, Gunning, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This unusual leafhopper with its expansive head is not well known in collections despite its distribution including well populated and well collected parts of the country. It has been found under the bark of eucalypt trees in the Sydney region. Only a single male specimen attributable to this species has been found and it differs from the yellow brown females and nymphs by its dark, almost black, colouring.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus piperita Smith [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Head ventrally deep chocolate brown; frons punctate, lorae, maxillary plates and vertex, rugose. Dorsally rugose, reddish brown with a median black longitudinal stripe; ocelli orange. Pronotum transversely striated, reddish brown mottled with black. Scutellum rugose, marked with a pattern of brown and black. Tegmen pale brown, the veins a somewhat darker brown and the whole tegmen covered with a sparse pubescence. Thorax ventral surface marked with a pattern of dark brown and black. Abdomen, the two proximal segments black, the remainder dark brown. Length 15 mm (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 7. — Stenocotidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 157-164 [162]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED