Species Occiplanocephalus ravus Evans, 1942

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• Occiplanocephalus ravus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [147].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 11-21.i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, 40 km W of Coolgardie, 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] (discuss R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Introduction

This unusual species is only known from the original two specimens collected in January 1936. Recent collecting near Dedari has failed to locate any further specimens although it is suspected to be associated with a species of Eremophila (Myoporaceae) in the region.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface pale greyish brown with transverse brown muscle impressions on the frontoclypeus, eyes dark brown, crown grey. Pronotum grey mottled with brown. Scutellum grey with brown and black markings. Tegmen whitish-hyaline, veins brown; venation partially reticulate. Thorax ventral surface grey with brown markings. Hind tibia pale brown, the bases of the spines dark brown. Abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Length 6.8 mm (Evans 1942).

Theron (1987) has redescribed the species and provided images of the male genitalia.

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [147]

Theron, J.G. 1987. Redescription of Occiplanocephalus ravus Evans (Homoptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae) from Western Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 26(1): 33-34 [33–34]

 

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