Species Mitelloides mouldsorum Stevens, 1990

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mitelloides mouldsi Stevens, M.M. 1990. Revision of the genus Mitelloides Evans, with two new species from northern Australia (Homoptera, Cicadellae). Entomologica Scandinavica 21: 281-288 [287].

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ♂ (coll.: 13.x.1979, M.S. & B.J. Moulds), Jardine River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Mitelloides mouldsorum Stevens, 1990 [the original description stated that the species was named after two collectors and the original species name was therefore emended to the plural genitive case from the singular by Day & Fletcher (1994).) [emendation]]. —
  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1133]

 

Introduction

This large brown species is known only from the type locality on Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland. It was named "after Max and Barbara Moulds, collectors of the only known specimens, in recognition of their contribution to Australian entomology."

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species can be differentiated from others in the genus on the basis of features of the male genitalia. A comprehensive description and illustrations were provided by Stevens (1990).

 

ID Keys

Stevens 1990: 284

 

Diagnosis References

Stevens, M.M. 1990. Revision of the genus Mitelloides Evans, with two new species from northern Australia (Homoptera, Cicadellae). Entomologica Scandinavica 21: 281-288 [286, 287–288]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)