Species Macropsis flavomaculatus Evans, 1942
Compiler and date details
26 March 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Macropsis flavomaculatus 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 is one of five species of Macropsini described by Evans (1942) from Dedari in the Coolgardie region of Western Australia. All were based on female holotypes.
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 apricot mottled with whitish yellow, eyes dark brown. Pronotum anteriorly declivous though not so steep as in M. declivus Evans, greyish white with apricot punctures. Scutellum concolorous with the pronotum, with sparse orange brown punctures. Tegmen colourless hyaline mottled with pale coffee brown; veins pale brown with white bars. Thorax and abdomen, ventral surface, and legs, pale orange yellow. Length 4 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) |