Species Pediopsis emmae (Evans, 1971)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropsis emmae Evans, J.W. 1971. Leafhoppers from New Guinea and Australia belonging to the subfamilies Macropsinae and Agalliinae with notes on the position of Nionia Ball and Magnentius Pruthi (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 13(2): 343-360 [357].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K69195 ♂ (coll.: x.1963, J.W. Evans), Braidwood, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pediopsis emmae (Evans, 1971). —
  Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [904]

 

Introduction

This pale yellowish species is only known from Braidwood in the SE Highlands of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration pale yellowish. Face of head slightly wider than long, pale yellowish with a pair of black spots on vertex posterior to ocelli. Pronotum with transverse striations, pale yellowish with a pair of black spots anteriorly. Scutellum concolorous with pronotum, muscle impressions black. Tegmen hyaline, pale yellowish brown (Evans 1971).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1971. Leafhoppers from New Guinea and Australia belonging to the subfamilies Macropsinae and Agalliinae with notes on the position of Nionia Ball and Magnentius Pruthi (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 13(2): 343-360 [357]

 

History of changes

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