Species Pettya punctata (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eutambourina punctata Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers from Tasmania and Queensland. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1941: 27-30 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: v.1935. R.E. Turner), Tamborine Mts, Queensland.

  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] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Pettya punctata (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [273]
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [273]

 

Introduction

This nicely marked species is known from a few localities in SE Queensland. Its identity needs to be confirmed by examination of the male holotype.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Anteclyepus brown, smooth; lora and maxillary plates brown with yellow pits; frontoclypeus and vertex yellow but for a brown spot at the apex of each frontal suture and a pair of broad longitudinal brown stripes that extend posteriorly almost as far as the hind margin of the crown. Pronotum and scutellum pale lemon yellow. Tegmen hyaline, pale yellow partially suffused with brown and with a whitish oval area lying against the costal border [brochosome patch?]. Thorax pleural sclerites brown with yellow pits. Abdomen pale yellow. Length 3.8 mm (Evans 1942)

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers from Tasmania and Queensland. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1941: 27-30 [27–28]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
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