Species Tharra leai Evans, 1941

Tharra leai Evans, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tharra leai Evans, J.W. 1941. New Australian leafhoppers. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65(1): 36-41 [41].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀ (coll.: A.M. Lea), Cairns, Queensland.

Introduction

This species, described originally from Cairns in the wet tropics of North Queensland, was recorded from other localities in Queensland by Nielson (1975) but one of these is Iluka Rain Forest, Clarence River, which is in NE New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface coffee-colour, eyes black. Anteclypeus, frontoclypeus and lora smooth, maxillary plates with marginal, and vertex with transverse, striations. Ocelli distant from the frontoclypeus which is raised above the level of the eyes; antennae very long. Crown wide consisting entirely of the vertex, the sides of which are at right angles to the central portion. A median carina marks the position of the coronal suture. Pronotum and scutellum dark brown. Tegmen brownish yellow, veins brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Length 6 mm (Evans 1941).
Nielson (1975) provides a detailed description, including of the male genitalia.

ID Keys

Nielson 1975: 35

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1941. New Australian leafhoppers. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65(1): 36-41 [41]

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 [87–89]

History of changes