Species Plexitartessus pulchellus (Spångberg, 1878)

Plexitartessus pulchellus (Spångberg), adult female.

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus pulchellus Spångberg, J. 1878. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 34(9): 3-14 [10].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Plexitartessus pulchellus (Spångberg, 1878). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [151]

Introduction

This largish, colourful species is found in North Queensland and in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Dilute et pallide virescente-flavescens, margine laterali pronoti, commissura clavi, maculis binis costalibus tegminum, venis plurimis corii, praeterea in maribus parte genaram pone oculos posita, pectore fere toto, coxis, tibiis posticis extus segmentisque abdominis, apice horum anguste albido-limbato excepto, nigris, segmentis abdominis in feminis fere totis ferrugineis; tegminibus vitreo-hyaiinis, late, dilute flavescente-fasciatis, clavo nitide flavescente-ferrugineo, appendice membranae apicem versus valde dilatata, fuscescente, alis vitreo-hyaiinis. Mas segmento ventrali ultimo fere plus dimidio longiore quam penultimo, sordide flavescente, apice rotundato-producto. Femina segmento ventrali ultimo plus duplo longiore quam penultimo, sordide flavescente, in medio longitudinaliter usque ad basin fisso, apice triangulariter producto, lobis postice rotundatis. ♂: long. corp. 6,5 mill., long. corp. c. tegm. 8,5 mill., lat. 2 mill. ♀: long. corp. 8,5 mill., long. corp. c. tegm. 10 mill., lat. 2.5 mill. (Spångberg 1878).

Crown flat, of even length with eyes at each side. Head and thorax yellow. Tegmen hyaline brown with whitish fasciae and two dark brown oval markings between R and the costal margin, claval margin beside scutellum narrowly black. Length: ♂ 8.7 mm, ♀ 10–11 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 [151–152]

Spångberg, J. 1878. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 34(9): 3-14 [10]

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