Species Paracephaleus marginatus (Waterhouse, 1839)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cephalelus marginatus Waterhouse, G.R. 1839. Descriptions of some new species of exotic insects. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 2: 188-196 [195].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown, King George Sound, Western Australia.
• Cephalelus punctatus Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype MMUS ♀, King George Sound, Western Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [98] (synonymy of C. punctatus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Paracephaleus marginatus (Waterhouse, 1839). —
  Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [98]

 

Introduction

This beautifully textured leafhopper is found in inland New South Wales and from SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic, WA: Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale brown. Elytra with the outer margin pale yellow, joined internally by a long blackish streak. Head much elongated anteriorly, and produced almost to a point. Long. Corp. 4–6¼ lin. Var. 1 dark brown. Elytra inclining to black towards the outer margin; the margins pale testaceous. Var. 2 uniform pale brown (Waterhouse 1839).

General appearance streaky mottled brown, rugose. Face with short white hairs; labium terminating between middle coxae; anteclypeus narrowly pear-shaped; lora extending posteriorly as far as antennal pits, flat; remainder of face slightly concave. Head sloping laterally; ocelli approximately the same distance from the eyes as the length of the eyes; eyes not in alignment with the sides of the head. Tegmen apically acute, punctate, venation obscure or veins distinct and raised in relief. Length, wingless ♂ 8–10 mm; wingless ♀ 10–11 mm, of crown of head 3–5 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [92]

Waterhouse, G.R. 1839. Descriptions of some new species of exotic insects. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 2: 188-196 [195]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		27-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
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