Species Spanotartessus evansi (Metcalf, 1955)

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Regional Maps

• Tartessus evansi Metcalf, Z.P. 1955. New names in the Homoptera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 45(8): 262-267 [266] [replacement name; for Tartessus obscurus Evans, 1937].
• Tartessus obscurus 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 [54] [junior homonym; Tartessus obscurus Schmidt, 1920].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Leura, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Spanotartessus evansi (Metcalf, 1955). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [130]

 

Introduction

This smallish evenly brown species is known from disparate sites in New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale brownish yellow, eyes black; head rounded posteriorly; the ocelli, but not the hind margin of the frons, visible in ventral aspect; crown of head from above slightly produced between the eyes. Pronotum and scutellum pale brown; the scutellum longer than the pronotum. Tegmen pale hyaline brown with one spine on the hind margin. Thorax and abdomen, ventral surface, and legs, pale brownish yellow. Length 5 mm (Evans 1937, as Tartessus obscurus).

 

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 [54]

 

History of changes

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