Species Macropsis gibbus (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oncopsis gibbus 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.: xii.1935, R.E. Turner), Yanchep, 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).

 

Generic Combinations

• Macropsis gibbus (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [166]

 

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 and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head brownish yellow with evenly distributed black punctures, muscle impressions yellow, eyes reddish brown. Vertex medially dark brown. Crown only visible narrowly against the eyes on each side. Pronotum greyish brown with evenly distributed black punctures, declivous anteriorly and slightly humped. Scutellum deep buff with scattered brown spots, anterior lateral angles yellow. Tegmen whitish hyaline evenly mottled with dull brown, veins pink. Thorax ventral surface black. Abdomen ventral surface black, hind margin of every segment yellowish white. Length 3.8 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

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