Species Neovulturnus punctulatus (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vulturnus punctulatus Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [153].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM 5206 ♂ (coll.: H. Hacker), Nanango district, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neovulturnus punctulatus (Evans, 1937). —
  Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [180]

 

Introduction

This species is distinctive in the genus by being almost entirely black in the body with some variation in colouring in the tegmen. It was described from the Nanango district of SE Queensland but is also known from the Sydney basin of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface black, apical thickened margin pale yellowish brown. Crown of head, pronotum and scutellum black with numerous small yellowish brown or reddish brown spots. Tegmen greyish white or yellowish white with dark brown or black reticulations between the veins; appendix, supplementary appendix and apex of tegmen hyaline smoky grey. From one to three anteapical cells may be hyaline white. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black. Legs black, spines on hind tibiae brown. Length 3.8 mm (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [153–154]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		23-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)