Species Ledrella brunnea Evans, 1937

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Regional Maps

• Ledrella brunnea Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera) Part 4. — (Ledridae, Ulopidae and Euscelidae, Paradorydiini). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 37-50 [40].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: F.E. Wilson), Kiata, Victoria.

 

Introduction

This tiny brown thymbrine is known from localities from western Victoria to SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum and scutellum pale brown. Head with the ocelli closer to the eyes on each side than to each other. Tegmen transparent; veins brown with white bars. Thorax and abdomen, ventral surface, pale brown with dark brown markings. Male genitalia: the long narrow process parallel to the aedeagus is attached to the pygophore and is not part of the aedeagus (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera) Part 4. — (Ledridae, Ulopidae and Euscelidae, Paradorydiini). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 37-50 [40]

 

History of changes

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