Species Stenalsella testacea Evans, 1966

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• Stenalsella testacea Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [118].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂, Mt Glorious, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This endemic species is only known from the far SE corner of Queensland and the far NE corner of New South Wales. A record from "National Park, New South Wales" given by Evans (1966) is based on a specimen in the J.W. Evans collection from National Park, Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration pale yellowish brown irregularly mottled with dark brown, or whitish mottled with brown and sometimes with a wide median longitudinal band extending from the anterior margin of the pronotum to the base of the scutellum. Tegmen whitish, yellowish, brownish or colourless hyaline; veins brown, sometimes with pale bars. Clavus sometimes basally whitish and punctate and with reticulate venation. Length ♂ 7–8 mm, ♀ 8–9 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 [118]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)