Species Mapochiella woodwardi Evans, 1966
Compiler and date details
1 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Mapochiella woodwardi Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [140].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♀ (coll.: v.1954, T.E. Woodward), Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland.
Introduction
Specimens which match the unusual head shape of this species are known from inland parts of the Northern Territory, Barrow Island in the Carnarvon region of Western Australia and northern New South Wales. Whether they are all the one species has yet to be determined.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
General coloration straw colour. Face of head with a post-apical basin-like depression on each side of the median keel. Crown of head straw colour mottled with brown with a pre-apical long, narrow depression at the apex of the median ridge and with lateral depressions on each side of the head. Pronotum straw colour with a median and post-ocular lateral ridges. Tegmen straw colour. Length ♂ 5.2 mm, of head 1.5 mm (Evans 1966).
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [140]
History of changes
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