Species Rhotidoides montana Evans, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhotidoides montana Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [60].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂, Mount Wellington, Tasmania.

 

Introduction

This elegant, reddish brown, but somewhat variable, species is known from higher elevations from Barrington Tops in New South Wales to the high country of Victoria as well as from the type locality, Mt Wellington in Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface pale or dark brown with or without yellowish mottlings. There is usually a broad, pale, brownish yellow, transverse stripe across the posterior third of the frons extending to the eyes on each side. Anteriorly the frons is slightly swollen and the anterior margin of the head is slightly recurved; posteriorly the head is evenly rounded, not produced, the ocelli lying in shallow depressions. Crown of head in dorsal aspect of equal width throughout or wider against the eyes than in the middle. Pronotum and scutellum light or dark brown mottled with grey. Tegmen hyaline or hyaline brown with or without whitish mottlings. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale yellowish brown. Legs pale yellowish brown but for the bases of all the spines on the hind tibiae, which are black. Ovipositor not extending beyond the apices of the folded tegmina. Male pygophores narrowly produced posteriorly. Length ♂ 6 mm, ♀ 7 mm; head width 2 mm (Evans 1937).

 

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)