Species Neotartessus fumus (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus fumus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [155].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: ii.1936, R.E Turner), Mundaring Weir, 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

• Neotartessus fumus (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [126]

 

Introduction

This species was described from SW Western Australia but there are also specimens in the J.W. Evans collection from New South Wales. These are slightly larger than the Western Australian specimens.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Jarrah Forest (JF), Sydney Basin (SB), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface yellow, eyes brown. Crown yellow consisting in part of the frontoclypeus. Pronotum and scutellum yellow. Tegmen pale hyaline brown, apically smoky brown, veins light and dark brown, appendix very wide apically. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface yellow. Male genitalia: pygophore with strong processes. Length 6.5 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 [155]

 

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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