Species Pascoepus longispinus Webb, 1983
Compiler and date details
4 October 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Pascoepus longispinus Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [57].
Type data:
Holotype CAS ♂ (coll.: 10.x.1962, 625 m, E.S. Ross & D.Q. Cavagnaro), Dales Gorge, Western Australia.
Introduction
This species is only known from two males collected at Dales Gorge in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Neither specimen is in an Australian collection.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Pilbara (PIL)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Yellow tinged with green. Male basal abdominal apodemes with dorsal pair absent, ventral pair short. Male genitalia with segment X in lateral aspect with two or three long peg-like spines posteriorly; posterior margin membranous ventrally. Subgenital plates narrowly spatulate, a row of moderately long setae along dorsal and apical margins. Styles tapered to acute apex. Aedeagus with shaft short and broad, laterally compressed dorsally, processes strongly divergent. Length ♂ 3.6 mm (Webb 1983).
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 51–52
Diagnosis References
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [57]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |