Species Tharra hackeri Evans, 1966

Tharra hackeri Evans, adult

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tharra hackeri Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: xii.1923, H. Hacker), National Park, Queensland.

Introduction

This yellowish brown species has been recorded from SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

General coloration yellowish brown. Face of head yellowish- or reddish-brown. Crown and thorax concolorous with the face. Tegmen, as far as the apex of the claval suture, hyaline yellowish brown; distally of the apex of the claval suture, uniformly smoky brown' veins concolorous with the tegmen. Length: ♂ 5 mm (Evans 1966).
Nielson (1975) provides a detailed description of the morphology, including the male genitalia.

ID Keys

Nielson 1975: 35

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [189]

Nielson, M.W. 1975. A revision of the subfamily Coelidiinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Tribes Tinobregmini, Sandersellini and Tharrini. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Supplement) 24: 1-197 [174]

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