Species Protartessus wallacei F. Evans, 1981

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• Protartessus wallacei Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: iv.1971, M. Wallace), Coastal Highway, S Cape Crossing, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This pale species was described from a locality of unknown location in Western Australia. Clearly, the specimen was collected somewhere along the Coastal Highway which runs from Perth to Port Hedland in the north Pilbara. The specimen pictured here is a male in the J.W. Evans collection, identified by Faith Evans, from the Millstream area of the Pilbara and this might give some indication of the location of the type locality. The specimen bears a paratype label but no mention of paratypes was made in the original description.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Pilbara (PIL)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale yellowish. Tegmen vitreous, pale yellowish brown; veins pale brown. Length ♂ 7 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 [140]

 

History of changes

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