Species Occinirvana eborea Evans, 1942
Occinirvana eborea Evans, adult female.
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Species Occinirvana eborea Evans, 1942
Compiler and date details
22 July 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Occinirvana eborea Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [157].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: iii.1936, R.E. Turner), Perth, 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).
Introduction
This bizarre and quite colourful species has been collected in the Swan Valley in Western Australia on "Casuarina". Three specimens were collected from Allocasuarina fraseriana (Miq.), L.A.S. Johnson in 2009 and another specimen was collected from the same host at Jarrahdale (M.L. Moir, pers. comm. 2011). All known specimens are female and it is possible that the species is parthenogenic. A study of its biology is needed.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Allocasuarina fraseriana (Miq., 1982) L.A.S.Johnson [CASUARINACEAE] She Oak; Casuarina sp. [CASUARINACEAE]).
Diagnosis
Head ventral surface ivory, lora and anteclypeus brownish grey, eyes black. Crown pale ivory with a median longitudinal apical band and two narrow sinuate lateral bands; ocelli red. Pronotum ivory with a median apricot band and apricot mottlings anterolaterally. Scutellum ivory with apricot muscle impressions and a faint broad median apricot band. Tegmen pale hyaline brown but for the clavus which is white; apically brown and with a brown area at the fork of Cu1. Thorax ventral surface apricot and ivory. Abdomen ventral surface ivory; last segment medially emarginate; ovipositor sheath with proximal brown and apical black spines. Length 6 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 [157]
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 |
| 05-Dec-2019 | Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Murray Fletcher |
| 05-Dec-2019 | Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Murray Fletcher |
| 05-Dec-2019 | Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Murray Fletcher |
| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Dec-2019 | 22-Jul-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
| 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED |