Species Neotartessus flavipes (Spångberg, 1878)

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• Tartessus flavipes Spångberg, J. 1878. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 34(9): 3-14 [4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♂, quantity unknown, Australia borealis.
• Tartessus sahlbergii Signoret, V.A. 1880. Essai sur les Jassides Stål, Fieb, et plus particulièrement sur les Acocéphalides Puton. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 10: 41-70, 189-212, 347-366 [351].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀ quantity unknown (Signoret x.1866, possible holotype by monotypy), New Holland.
• Tartessus io Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [46].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unkown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Mittagong, New South Wales.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [193] (synonymy of T. io)
• Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [126] (synonymy of T. sahlbergiii)

 

Generic Combinations

• Neotartessus flavipes (Spångberg, 1878). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [126]

 

Introduction

A well known and distinctive species of leafhopper on eucalypts in a wide band of eastern Australia from SE Queensland to Tasmania. The male tends to be darker than the females with the legs more obviously yellow in contrast to the otherwise dark colouring.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Niger, dimidio apicali femorum anticorum et mediorum, tibiis tarsisque anticis et mediis, femoribus, tibiis tarsisque fere totis pedum posticorum flavis, tegminibus flavescente-fuscis, parte apicali venisque valde obscurioribus, et maculis binis sordide albidis ornatis, altera ad marginem exteriorem aliquanto pone medium, altera ad marginem interiorem prope apicem clavi positis, alis fuscescentibus, fere opacis. Mas segmento ventrali ultimo fere dimidio longiore quam penultimo, apice subrotundato-truncato. Femina ignota. ♂ long. corp. 5.5 mill., long. corp. c. tegm. 7 mill., lat. 2.5 mill. (Spångberg 1878).

Coloration variable, ranging from yellow to dark brown or black. Male usually considerably darker than female. Face golden yellow, buff, dark brown or black; muscle impressions on postclypeus prominent. Pronotum ochreous to black with pale areas behind the eyes. Scutellum concolorous with pronotum, sometimes apically pale. Tegmen hyaline brown, apically smoky with pale areas at apex of clavus and between veins R1a and R1b; veins dark brown, marginal vein apically whitish. Length ♂ 6–6.8 mm; ♀ 6.2–7.2 mm (Evans 1981).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [126]

Spångberg, J. 1878. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 34(9): 3-14 [4]

 

History of changes

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