Species Neotartessus mundarensis (Evans, 1942)
Neotartessus mundarensis (Evans), adult.
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Species Neotartessus mundarensis (Evans, 1942)
Compiler and date details
20 January 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Tartessus mundarensis 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 mundarensis (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 originally described from SW Western Australia and listed as only being from that state by Evans (1981) but a specimen in the J.W. Evans collection is from Warooka, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
Distribution
States
South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
SA, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Jarrah Forest (JF)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Frontoclypeus anteriorly faintly suffused with brown, sutures brown; eyes black. Crown, frontoclypeus yellow, vertex pale whitish brown. Pronotum concolorous with the vertex. Scutellum anteriorly pale whitish brown, apically lemon yellow. Tegmen pale hyaline brown, apically smoky brown; veins dark brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black, legs yellow, bases of the spines on the hind tibia black. Length 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 | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |