Species Tartessoides brunneus Evans, 1966

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• Tartessoides brunneus Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [200].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀ (coll.: 19.ix.1924, A.S. Cudmore), 130 miles SE of Broome, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This species, which is known from two arid zone localities, one in the Northern Territory and the other in Western Australia, is smaller and browner than the type species of the genus.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration brown. Face of head pale brown faintly spotted with brown. Crown, pale brown pitted with dark brown. Pronotum pale brownish grey with scattered brown punctures medially and with three longitudinal stripes on each side, innermost stripe spotted with brown punctures, and a small external brown area. Scutellum whitish grey with sparse brown punctures, laterally dark brown. Tegmen and veins hyaline chestnut brown except on each side of the pronotum and the appendix, postero-proximally, which is whitish. Length ♀ 8.4 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 [200]

 

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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