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<I>Macroceps tamarensis </I>Evans, adult.

Macroceps tamarensis Evans, adult.

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Species Macroceps tamarensis Evans, 1937


Compiler and date details

3 February 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher

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 and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011 20-Sep-2011 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)