Species Neotartessus pallidus (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus pallidus Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neotartessus pallidus (Evans, 1937). —
  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 pale golden brown species is only known from females from the Sydney basin of New South Wales. It was only tentatively placed in Neotartessus by Evans (1981) pending discovery of a male. Evans (1966) synonymised the species with Austrotartessus iokaste (Kirkaldy) but it was reinstated by Evans (1981).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Ventrally very pale brownish yellow, clypeus and markings on the frons pale brown; eyes brownish red. Head dorsally pale brownish yellow, slightly produced anteriorly. Pronotum and scutellum tawny. Thorax ventral surface and legs vey pale brownish yellow. Abdomen chocolate brown. Length 6.5 mm, head width 2 mm (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [54]

 

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 [195]

 

History of changes

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