Species Mitelloides moaensis Evans, 1939

Mitelloides moaensis Evans, adult female.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitelloides moaensis Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K46346 ♂ (coll.: 15.xi.1919, W. McLennan), Moa, Banks Island, Torres Strait, Queensland.
• Mitelloides moanensis Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [126] [subsequent misspelling].

Introduction

This species was described from Moa Island in Torres Strait but Evans (1966) also listed Mt Lamington, Papua New Guinea, in the distribution. Stevens (1990) examined the same PNG specimen which is a female and would not identify it to species. Whether this species is endemic to Australia is therefore unknown.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface pale yellowish brown but for the internal margins of the lora and the posterior third of the frontoclypeus which are very dark brown. Crown yellowish brown flecked with reddish brown. Pronotum anterior two thirds brownish yellow with dark brown markings; posterior third grey. Scutellum yellowish brown. Tegmen proximal costal and claval area punctate, brown, the rest hyaline; veins brown. Thorax and abdomen, ventral surface, pale brown. Legs marked with a pattern of brown and yellow. Length 9 mm (Evans 1939).

Stevens (1990) provided a comprehensive redescription of the species.

ID Keys

Stevens 1990: 284

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [46–47]

Stevens, M.M. 1990. Revision of the genus Mitelloides Evans, with two new species from northern Australia (Homoptera, Cicadellae). Entomologica Scandinavica 21: 281-288 [284–285]

General References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [126]

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