Species Ruandopsis bunyensis (Evans, 1971)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropsis bunyensis Evans, J.W. 1971. Leafhoppers from New Guinea and Australia belonging to the subfamilies Macropsinae and Agalliinae with notes on the position of Nionia Ball and Magnentius Pruthi (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 13(2): 343-360 [358].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K69197 ♂ (coll.: v.1958, J.W. Evans), Bunya Mountains, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Ruandopsis bunyensis (Evans, 1971). —
  Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [901]

 

Introduction

This is the only Australian representative of a small genus known from New Guinea and Africa. The species is amongst the smallest Australian macropsines.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration brown. Face of head as wide as long, pale brown with brown punctures. Crown of equal length with adjacent eyes. Pronotum with oblique striations, pale greyish brown with brown punctures. Scutellum pale brownish yellow, centre and muscle impressions concolorous with pronotum. Tegmen in part vitreous, in part pale hyaline brown; veins in part yellow with brown bars, in part broadly dark brown. Length ♂ 3 mm, ♀ 3.3 mm (Evans 1971).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1971. Leafhoppers from New Guinea and Australia belonging to the subfamilies Macropsinae and Agalliinae with notes on the position of Nionia Ball and Magnentius Pruthi (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 13(2): 343-360 [358]

 

History of changes

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