Species Soractellus nigrominutus Evans, 1966

Museums

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• Soractellus nigrominutus Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [225].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: xi.1944, E.F. Riek), Moolooka, (presumably Moorooka, a suburb of Brisbane), Queensland.

 

Introduction

This small brown and white species occurs in macropterous, semibrachypterous and brachypterous form. The holotype is semibrachypterous. The species is widespread in Queensland with records from the northern parts of Western Australia and the Northern Territory as well as coastal New South Wales and central Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration yellowish grey. Face of head black with transverse posterior muscle impressions, as wide as long, sloping steeply at sides; anteclypeus convex. Crown greyish golden brown, longest in the centre and longer than the pronotum. Pronotum and scutellum concolorous with the crown. Tegmen not fully developed [in holotype], extending almost as far as apex of abdomen, grey; veins bordered with brown and some obscure brown markings. Length ♂ 2.2 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 [225–226]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
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