Species Neovulturnus sordidus (Evans, 1937)
Compiler and date details
28 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Vulturnus sordidus 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 5205 ♂ (coll.: H. Hacker), Samsonvale, Queensland.
Generic Combinations
- Neovulturnus sordidus (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 unknown to the compiler. It is only known from the type locality in SE Queensland. A specimen in the JW Evans collection associated with this species name bears a determination label by Evans of "nr Vulturnus punctulatus" which raises the possibility that the names are synonyms. Both holotypes are males so an examination of the two type specimens would determine whether they are both valid species.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head ventrally black; apical thickened margin pale brown, crown of head, pronotum and scutellum shining brown with scattered small reddish brown spots. Tegmen proximal two thirds concolorous with the head, distal border, appendix and supplementary appendix dark hyaline brown. Adjacent to the apical brown border of the tegmen is a transverse hyaline white fascia across which the veins are outlined in brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black. Legs black, the spines on the hind tibiae brown and black. 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]
History of changes
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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) |