Species Thymbrella tamminensis Evans, 1969

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• Thymbrella tamminensis Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [747].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 11.xii.1935, R.E. Turner), Tammin, 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).

 

Introduction

This narrow brown species is known from three arid localities in SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration greyish with brown markings. Head pale brownish yellow with dark brown markings. Pronotum greyish with brown markings, which may form three longitudinal stripes. Tegmen hyaline, almost vitreous; veins brown with white bars. Length ♂ 7 mm, ♀ 8 mm; greatest width of head 2 mm (Evans 1969).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1969. Characteristics and components of Ledrinae and some new genera and new species from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 11(3-4): 735-754 [747–748]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Sep-2011		20-Sep-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)