Species Neotartessus ianiera (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus ianiera Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [48].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: i-ii.1905, Koebele), Sydney, New South Wales; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Parramatta, New South Wales
  Comment: Both sexes are represented in the type series. Evans (1981) listed the type as being from Sydney and, if only one syntype from Sydney can be shown to have existed, may have designated that specimen as lectotype by default.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neotartessus ianiera (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [128]

 

Introduction

This species, which is only known from the Sydney basin of New South Wales, was synonymised with Tartessus iambe Kirkaldy by Evans (1966) but Evans (1981) resurrected the species and placed T. iambe into a different genus.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Allied to T. iambe [= Alotartessus iambe (Kirkaldy)]. Pale yellowish brown, scutellum often tinged with ferruginous. Second subapical cell extending apically beyond the others. Crossveins on brachial and in subcostal fairly straight. Male: sterna and sternites somewhat fuscate; face almost immaculate; genital segments not unlike those of T. subniger [= Brunotartessus fulvus (Walker)]. Females. Frons with a submedian pale fuscous longitudinal line with transverse striae. Sterna and sternites pale; last sternite produced, apically acute-angled, pygophor elongate with yellowish-brown bristles. Length 7 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [48]

 

General References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [128]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [194]

 

History of changes

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