Species Smicrocotis brunneus (Evans, 1947)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kyphocotis brunneus Evans, J.W. 1947. A natural classification of leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera) Part 3. Jassidae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 98(6): 105-271 [252].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Smicrocotis brunneus (Evans, 1947). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [110]

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the Sydney basin of New South Wales and its validity needs to be confirmed.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face black mottled with light and dark brown; crown with a pair of oblique, lateral ridges and a sharp, upturned anterior rim-like margin, slightly wider against the eyes than in the centre. Pronotum brown, mottled with black in the centre and at the sides posteriorly; scutellum flat. Tegmen whitish hyaline partially suffused with light and dark brown; veins brown. Venation of the tegmen of the usual jassid pattern apart from the presence of additional costal veins, as Cu1, unlike in the majority of the Stenocotini, has only two branches and the anal veins, though linked distally by a crossvein, each reach as far as the anal border. Hind tibiae with four rows of marginal spines, the row mounted on prominent bases comprising only four spines. Length 7 mm (Evans 1947).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 108–109

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1947. A natural classification of leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera) Part 3. Jassidae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 98(6): 105-271 [252–253]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [108–109]

 

History of changes

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