Species Thymbris convivus (Stål, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhotidus convivus Stål, C. 1865. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 145-165 [157].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW ♀, quantity unknown (possibly a holotype by monotypy), Moreton Bay, Queensland.
• Rhotidus breviceps Stål, C. 1865. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 145-165 [157].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW ♀, quantity unknown (possibly a holotype by monotypy), Adelaide, South Australia.
• Rhotidus aequalis Distant, W.L. 1907. Contributions to a knowledge of the Ledrinae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 51: 185-197 [193].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 7 ♀ (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland
  Comment: F.P. Dodd did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland and this is probably the type locality for this name.
• Thymbris inachis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM sex unknown (coll.: xi.1904, Koebele), Brisbane, Queensland
  Comment: This is one of the rare occasions when Kirkaldy indicated in the original publication that one of his specimens of a new species would be the "type".

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [59] (synonymy of T. inachis)
• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [125] (synonymy of R. breviceps & R. aequalis)

 

Generic Combinations

• Thymbris convivus (Stål, 1865). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [125]

 

Introduction

This pale brown species is widespread across Australia and is probably present in many other localities not recognised here.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Daly Basin (DAB), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Mulga Lands (ML), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Dilute griseo-ferrugineus, supra rugulosus et pallido conspersus; capite angulum rectum apice rotundatum formante, medio quam ad oculos paullo longiore, quintae parti thoracis longitudine fere aequali, margine apicali convexo; ocellis ad marginem anticum capitis positis. ♀ Long. 12, Lat. 3 mill. (Stål 1865).

Face of head straw coloured, sometimes sparsely mottled with brown; frontoclypeus laterally depressed posterior to the antennal ledges. Crown slightly declivous, arrow-shaped, slightly longer in the centre than against the eyes, pale brown, finely or evenly mottled with brown or reddish brown. Pronotum anteriorly declivous, together with scutellum concolorous with the crown. Tegmen pale or dark hyaline brown sparsely or densely mottled with brown; veins brown with pale bars. Sevel costal veinlets additional to R1a and R1b may be present. Length ♂ 8, ♀ 11–14 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 [125]

Stål, C. 1865. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 145-165 [157]

 

History of changes

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