Species Tartessella rugosa (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus rugosus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [156].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: xi.1935, R.E. Turner), Yanchep, Western Australia.

  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).

 

Generic Combinations

• Tartessella rugosa (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [122]

 

Introduction

This pale brown species is widespread across Australia from SE Queensland to the Swan Valley in Western Australia with most of the known records from arid, inland regions of Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. No records are known of the species from the southeastern states.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Channel Country (CHC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head pale brownish yellow; frontoclypeus anterior to the antennae with brown transverse muscle impressions; posterior to the antennae, and the vertex, rugose mottled with pale and dark brown; eyes dark brown. Crown, consisting entirely of the vertex, pitted with light and dark brown markings. Pronotum and scutellum pale brown with dark brown markings. Tegmen pale hyaline brown, veins dark brown. Abdomen, ventral surface marked with a pattern of light and dark brown and black. Hind tibia pale brown, bases of the spines dark brown. Length 7.5 mm (Evans 1942).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [156]

 

History of changes

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