Species Limotettix incertus Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limotettix incerta Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [230].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: iii.1962, J.W. Evans), Wilson's Valley, Mt Kosciusko, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species is one of the most common grass feeding leafhoppers in southern Australia, particularly through the Murray Darling basin, and is also recorded from temperate and tropical regions of Western Australia. It is commonly collected in light traps. Evans (1966) recorded it from two localities in New Zealand but Knight (1975) raised doubt about the occurrence of the species in New Zealand. Larivière & Fletcher (2010) excluded it from the New Zealand fauna leaving the species as an Australian endemic.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head yellow; margin of lora, anteclypeus and transverse muscle impressions on frontoclypeus black. Crown, yellow with curved muscle impressions laterally and one or two transverse black stripes. Pronotum and scutellum yellowish brown with irregular black markings. Tegmen evenly hyaline brown or hyaline brown with whitish veins margined with brown or black; costal margin white. Length ♂ 4, ♀ 4.5 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [230]

 

General References

Knight, W.J. 1975. Deltocephalinae of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 2(2): 169-208 [171]

Larivière, M.-C., Fletcher, M.J. & Larochelle, A. 2010. Auchenorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera): catalogue. Fauna of New Zealand 63: 1-228 [130]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)