Species Plexitartessus extremus F. Evans, 1981

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• Plexitartessus extremus Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 13.iii.1970, E. Dahms), nr Poona Lake, Cooloola, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This nicely marked species is distributed in SE Queensland and into the NE corner of New South Wales. A female in the J.W. Evans collection and identified as this species by F. Evans lacks the black markings on head and tegmen.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Yellow and black. Head yellow with a broad black band between the eyes. Width of crown less than length of each eye. Pronotum pale coffee brown. Scutellum pale brownish yellow, lateral muscle impressions brown. Tegmen vitreous, pale yellowish, costal margin broadly, anal margin narrowly and veins, black. Length ♂ 8.6 mm (Evans 1981).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [152–154]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)