Species Loralia pulcherrima Evans, 1966

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• Loralia pulcherrima Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [234].

  Type data:

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

 

Introduction

This beautifully marked short, squat species was described from the high country of New South Wales but is also known from several sites in the Sydney region.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

A very distinctively marked species. Face of head, pale brownish yellow with a broad transverse black band on the frontoclypeus and between the eyes; another broad, black, marginal band, interrupted by a narrow yellow transverse stripe. Crown pale brownish yellow. Pronotum anteriorly brown, posteriorly ivory. Tegmen in part hyaline brown, in part hyaline ivory with brown markings at apices of veins R1a, R1b, 1A and 2A; costal margin as far as R1a white. Length ♂ 4, ♀ 5.1 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 [234]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
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