Species Macropsis declivus Evans, 1942
Compiler and date details
26 March 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Macropsis declivus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [154].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia.Type locality references:
Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).
Introduction
This species is one of three which are coloured orange, the others being M. citrinus Evans and M. (Parapediopsis) citronella Hamilton. This one is only known from the type locality in the Coolgardie bioregion of Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Coolgardie (COO)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head, anterior to the ocelli, orange yellow with reddish brown punctures, muscle impressions pale orange; posterior to the ocelli medially grey, laterally pale pinkish white with brown punctures; eyes dark reddish brown. Pronotum with anterior third steeply declivous and more or less at right angles to the remainder which is flat, anterolaterally orange, without punctures, the remainder greyish brown with dense brown punctures. Scutellum orange brown with sparse brown punctures. Tegmen whitish hyaline with large round brown spots lying prinipally on the sides of the veins; veins pale brown. Thorax ventral surface black. Abdomen ventral surface orange brown. Length 3.5 mm (Evans 1942)
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [154]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 23-Mar-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |