Species Rhotidoides sidnica Evans, 1939

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• Rhotidoides sidnica Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: T.G. Campbell), "North Harbour", Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This dark brown species has been recorded in Sydney and at Burleigh Heads in the very SE corner of Queensland. It is probably distributed along the NSW northern coastline.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head black, evenly mottled with apricot brown, ventrally much wider than long. Transverse ridge at hind margin of frontoclypeus distinct, extending to the eyes on each side, nearly parallel to the antennal ledges. Pronotum and scutellum concolorous with the head. Tegmen pale khaki with rounded pale yellowish hyaline markings. Thorax ventral surface and legs with dark and pale brown markings. Abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Length 8 mm (Evans 1939).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [47]

 

History of changes

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20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
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