Species Stenopsoides turneri Evans, 1942

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stenopsoides turneri Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [153].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia [31° 05’34.15”S, 120°41’35.40”E].

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Introduction

This species is immediately recognisable by its anterior pronotal prolongation which is nearly as long as the rest of the body. It is only known from inland arid sites in southern Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Murchison (MUR), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface yellow with brown punctures, eyes red. Pronotum with "ventral" and dorsal surfaces yellowish brown with brown punctures; sides and apex dark brown. Scutellum yellow. Tegmen pale hyaline yellow. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface yellow. Length 7 mm (Evans 1942).

Stenopsoides turneri may be distinguished from the other described species of the genus by the pronotum bearing a pair of lateral brown stripes and the shape of the pronotal extension at apex being slightly curved dorsad, dorsoventrally flattened and expanded, while it is either tapered and rounded or truncate apically in other species. The tegmen has brown spots restricted to the costal region and along the veins, but in S. punctatus they are distributed all over the tegmen or are entirely absent in S. newi and S. truncatus. The body length of S. turneri is longer than S. punctatus and S. truncatus but overlaps in body length with S. newi (Semeraro et al. 2021)

 

ID Keys

Semeraro et al. 2021: 119–120

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [153]

Semeraro, L., Fletcher, M.J., Malipatil, M.B., Constant, J. and New, T.R. 2021. Revision of a unique Australian leafhopper genus Stenopsoides Evans (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae: Macropsini). Zootaxa 4999(2): 117–131 [120]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		19-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)