Species Newmaniana mullensis (Evans, 1938)

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• Euprora mullensis Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀ (coll.: F. May), Mullewa, Western Australia.
• Newmaniana viridis Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: ix.1935, R.E. Turner), Dongara, 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).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [201] (synonymy of N. viridis)

 

Generic Combinations

• Newmaniana mullensis (Evans, 1938). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [119]
• Stenotartessus mullensis (Evans, 1938). —
  Evans, J.W. 1947. A natural classification of leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera) Part 3. Jassidae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 98(6): 105-271 [207]

 

Introduction

This species, which is bright green in life, is known from widely separated localities from far western Queensland and western Victoria to SW Western Australia. The distribution includes inland arid regions as well as coastal sites although these are also mainly in drier regions. The species has been collected on species of Acacia Mill. (Fabaceae).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Acacia sp. [FABACEAE] Wattle).

 

Diagnosis

General coloration pale yellowish brown. Head with longitudinal striations; eyes reddish brown. Tegmen hyaline. Tibiae with the bases of the row of larges spines black. Length 11 mm (Evans 1938).

Length ♂ 7 mm, ♀ 9.8–13 mm (Evans 1981).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [119]

Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [10]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED