Species Thymbris pulcherrima Evans, 1969

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• Thymbris pulcherrima 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 [748].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K68747 ♂ (coll.: vii.1966, K. Moore), Larrimah, Northern Territory.

 

Introduction

This nicely patterned species is widespread in arid regions across the northern half of the Australian continent.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Gascoyne (GAS), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Pilbara (PIL), Sturt Plateau (STU)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration boldly mottled with light and dark brown. Face of head pale buff, irregularly mottled with light and dark brown. Anteclypeus projecting anteriorly beyond maxillary plates; ocelli marginal, visible neither in facial nor in dorsal aspect. Crown of head very slightly wider in centre. Pronotum straw coloured mottled with light and dark brown. Scutellum concolorous with pronotum, transversely ridged apically. Tegmen hyaline, irregularly mottled with light and dark brown and with two irregular, vitreous fasciae; veins barred with white and brown except in the areas of the fasciae where they are entirely white. Length ♂ ♀, 9 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 [748]

 

History of changes

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