Species Platyledra caldida Evans, 1969
Platyledra caldida Evans, adult.
© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.
Platyledra caldida Evans, head and thorax, dorsal view
© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.
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Species Platyledra caldida Evans, 1969
Compiler and date details
23 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Platyledra caldida Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [736].
Type data:
Holotype AM K68745 ♀ (coll: iii.1962, J.W. Evans), Perisher Valley, Mt Kosciusko, New South Wales.
Introduction
This species, described from the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, has also been found on the north coast of New South Wales at Barrington Tops.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
General coloration dark brown. Face of head with sparse, white hairs, partly pale, partly dark brown; mottled brown adjacent to eyes; subgenal suture prominent, ridge-like; lora terminating narrowly at anterior tentorial pits slightly anterior to antennae. Antennae closer to apex of head than to labrum-epipharynx; sides of head not extending laterally beyond antennae. Crown of head helmet-shaped with prominent median carina. Pronotum anteriorly and posteriorly carinate. Tegmen broadest distally; venation profusely reticulate (Evans 1969).
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [736]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 02-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |