Species Rhotidoides punctivena (Walker, 1858)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bythoscopus punctivena Walker, F. 1858. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq. London : British Museum pp. 1-117. [104].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex? (abdomen missing), Tasmania.
• Thymbris iphianassa Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [50].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (possibly a holotype by monotypy), Sydney, New South Wales.
• Rhotidoides norfolkensis 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 ♂ (coll.: J.W. Evans), New Norfolk, Tasmania.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [123] (synonymy of T. iphianassa and R. norfolkensis)

 

Generic Combinations

• Rhotidoides punctivena (Walker, 1858). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [123]

 

Introduction

This species is the most widespread species in the genus with records from Mt Morgan in the south brigalow belt of Queensland to Tasmania and from the south west of Western Australia. There are no records from Victoria but it almost certainly also occurs there.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Jarrah Forest (JF), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Fulvus, testaceo subconspersus, subtus pallide testaceus; caput thorace latius; abdomen supra nigrum, basi fulvum, apice compressum, segmentis albido marginatis; pedes pallide testacei; alae posticae cinereo-vitreae.
Tawny, very minutely marked with pale testaceous; under side pale testaceous. Head distinctly broader than the thorax. Abdomen black above, tawny at the base; hind borders of the segments whitish; tip compressed. Legs pale testaceous. Hind wings grayish vitreous. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 7 lines (Walker 1858).

Face of head pale brownish yellow, sometimes flecked with brown; crown declivous. Pronotum brown with small circular and narrow transverse white markings; in length, greater than one half the width, slightly declivous. Tegmen pale, or dark, hyaline brown with white spots on the veins and sometimes finely mottled with white. length ♂ ♀ 9–9.5 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 [123]

Walker, F. 1858. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq. London : British Museum pp. 1-117. [104]

 

History of changes

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