Genus Tartessoides Evans, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessoides 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 [55].

  Type species:

   Tartessoides griseus Evans, 1937 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This distinctive genus contains two species distributed primarily in the arid zones from Central Australia to Western Australia. One species, the type, shows sexual dimorphism in the shape of the head.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Gascoyne (GAS), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murchison (MUR), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) ; NT, SA, WA: Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD) ; NT, WA: Great Sandy Desert (GSD)

Diagnosis

Pale greyish or brown insects, ranging in length from 8.4–14 mm. Face longer than wide; labium terminating between hind coxae; anteclypeus long and tapering; postclypeus convex. Crown slightly longer against eyes than in centre or narrowly produced. Pronotum depressed anteriorly and laterally. Scutellum elevated posteriorly. Tegmen with venation reticulate in claval area. Male genitalia: pygophore apically acute; aedeagus curved, apically barbed; parameres unusually short; Xth segment lacking processes. Female VIIth abdominal sternite deeply divided into two long, narrow, parallel-sided parts (Evans 1981).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1981: 115–118

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [118]

 

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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