Species Macroceps moorei Evans, 1969

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• Macroceps moorei Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [746].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K68746 ♂ (coll.: K. Moore), Yanchep, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This distinctively marked species has been recorded at widely separated localities in mainland Australia. M.M. Stevens (pers. comm. 2005) considers that the species is probably not congeneric with the type species of Macroceps.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Riverina (RIV), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration mottled brown or gray with a prominent semicircular black, or dark brown, marking. Face of head pale or dark brown, mottled with black. Crown of head narrowly developed, widest adjacent to the prominent eyes. Pronotum anteriorly declivous with an anterior bold, brown or black, semicircular marking extending laterally to the eyes. Remainder of pronotum pale brown or whitish, sometimes mottled with light or dark brown. Tegmen variable in colour, either, except for clavus, vitreous, with irregular dark markings or with an oblique white fascia; veins sometimes with black and white bars. Length ♂ 5.5 mm, ♀ 6 mm (Evans 1969).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [746]

 

History of changes

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