Species Macroceps tamarensis Evans, 1937
Compiler and date details
3 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Macroceps tamarensis Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [67].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♀, Launceston, Tasmania.
Introduction
This hunch-backed species was described from Tasmania but a specimen in the J.W. Evans collection is from SE Queensland. M.M. Stevens (pers. comm. 2005) considers that the species is probably not congeneric with the type species of Macroceps.
Distribution
States
Queensland, Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld, Tas: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head pale brown, ocelli red, eyes greyish brown; frons less convex anteriorly than with M. tonnoiri, and the lorae more declivous. Pronotum and scutellum pale chestnut brown mottled with yellowish brown. Tegmen hyaline suffused with pale brown; veins barred with brown and white. Thorax ventral surface and front two pairs of legs brown, hind tibiae pale brown but for the apices of the tibiae and the bases of the spines which are dark brown. Abdomen ventral surface brown. Length 6.5 mm. Head width 2.8 mm (Evans 1937).
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [67]
History of changes
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20-Sep-2011 | 20-Sep-2011 | MOVED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |