Species Platyledra acuminata (Distant, 1917)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ledropsis acuminata Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex? (abdomen missing), Gayndah, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Platyledra acuminata (Distant, 1917). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [101]

 

Introduction

The species of Platyledra are not common in collections. This species is known from SE Queensland and Victoria but probably also occurs through the eastern parts of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath, and legs more or less fuscous brown; tibiae obscurely palely annulated; tegmina dull pale greyish brown, the venation, basal area, and three or four spots in oblique series before middle fuscous brown; basal margin of pronotum black; vertex of head much longer than pronotum, very strongly, centrally, longitudinally carinate, on each side of which it is very declivous, near middle it distinctly narrows to apex, which is acute; pronotum centrally longitudinally carinate; scutellum coarsely tricarinate. Long., incl. tegm., 14 mm. (Distant 1917).

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [189]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)