Species Rhotidus kiatensis Evans, 1937

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• Rhotidus kiatensis 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 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: F.E. Wilson), Kiata, Victoria.

 

Introduction

This elegant brown insect is only known from the male holotype from Kiata in western Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface pale yellowish brown mottled with dark brown and black; antennal pits deep, antennal ledges distinct; frons flat anteriorly, posteriorly a wide median longitudinal ridge with deep depressions on either side. Dorsal surface declivous, apricot yellow mottled with black. There is no distinct division between the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the head as with other species so that the antennal ledges against the eyes are almost on the same plane as those parts of the posterior margin of the crown that lie immediately behind them. Pronotum steeply declivous, black mottled with yellow, propleurae wide. Scutellum concolorous with the pronotum. Tegmen dark hyaline brown mottled with grey or white. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Legs pale brown with dark brown and black markings. Length ♂ 12 mm; head width 3.8 mm (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

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 [63]

 

History of changes

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