Species Reuplemmeles hobartensis (Evans, 1938)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Reuteriella hobartensis Evans, J.W. 1938. Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea): Part VIII. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1938: 1-18 [11].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Hobart, Tasmania.

 

Generic Combinations

• Reuplemmeles hobartensis (Evans, 1938). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [209]

 

Introduction

This sexually dimorphic species is reasonably common and widespread in southeastern Australia and in SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Male reddish or yellowish brown; veins of tegmen sometimes red or crown and pronotum largely crimson; scutellum yellowish red, laterally black. Tegmen costal third hyaline green, remainder black, veins red. Female pale brownish yellow; appendix and false appendix of tegmen sometimes smoky. Length ♂ 5.8–6.5 mm, ♀ 8–9.5 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [209–210]

 

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)