Species Pascoepus candidus (Evans, 1942)
Compiler and date details
1 October 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Idiocerus candidus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [151].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: 23.viii–5.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] (notes on R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).
Generic Combinations
- Pascoepus candidus (Evans, 1942). —
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [54]
Introduction
This small pale yellow species with brown markings is recorded along the coastal strip of Western Australia between Dongara and Yanchep.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Anteclypeus, maxillary plates and lora white; frontoclypeus white with dark brown markings; vertex pale brown mottled with brown; eyes brown. Pronotum grey mottled with brown. Scutellum yellowish-white, muscle impressions brown. Tegmen claval and costal areas white, the rest of the tegmen hyaline grey irregularly suffused with brown. Thorax ventral surface brown. Abdomen ventral surface and legs yellow. Length 2.2 mm (Evans 1942).
Male genitalia as in P. hyleorais (Kirkaldy) but segment X with a few longer peg-like spines and posterolateral margin with a single lobe, aedeagus with processes more divergent in posterior aspect. Female genitalia with posterior margin of pregenital sternite slightly concave medially. Second valvulae with teeth extending over approximately distal third of valvulae; dorsl sclerotised region elongate. Expanded apex of third valvulae extended about 2/3 length of narrow basal region and extended nearly 2/3 its length beyond pygophore (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 51–52
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [151]
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [54]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |