Species Macropsis flexus Evans, 1942
Compiler and date details
26 March 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Macropsis flexus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [153].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: x.1935, R.E. Turner), Dongara, 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 only known from the type locality in the Geraldton sandplains bioregion of Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head buff with minute pale brown punctures, eyes reddish brown, ocelli black; muscle impressions greenish yellow. Crown visible from above as a narrow band of even width. Pronotum concolorous with the head, slightly declivous but not humped. Scutellum concolorous with the pronotum. Tegmen colourless hyaline, veins brown with white bars. Thorax ventral surface pale brownish yellow, bases of all the spines on the hind tibia black. Abdomen ventral surface 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 [153]
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) |