Species Rhotidoides dongarrensis Evans, 1942

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• Rhotidoides dongarrensis Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: ix.1935, R.E. Turner), Dongara, Western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Introduction

This species is known from Perth and Dongara in the SW coastal regions of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Anteclypeus, lora and maxillary plates marked with a pattern of pale brown, dark brown and black; frontoclypeus and vertex yellowish white; eyes concolorous with the maxillary plates. Crown slightly wider against the eyes than in the centre, marked with a pattern of pale and dark brown. Pronotum anterior margin in front of the eyes, flat, followed by a narrow, declivous area, the remainder and greater part flat, brownish grey with dark brown markings. Scutellum pale brown. Tegmen hyaline colourless, evenly mottled with dull greyish brown. Thorax ventral surface with light and dark brown markings. Fore tibia pale brown with dark brown markings, hind tibia pale brown, the bases of the spines brown. Abdomen ventral surface marked with light and dark brown markings. Male genitalia: pygophores irregularly shaped and lacking processes (Evans 1942).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [152]

 

History of changes

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