Species Tolasella brunnea (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Neovulturnus brunneus Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [151].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM 5200 ♀, Stanthorpe, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tolasella brunnea (Evans, 1937). —
  Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [176]
• Neodartus brunneus (Evans, 1937). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [214]

 

Introduction

This small dark species has been recorded from Stanthorpe in southern Queensland as well as several locations in the Sydney basin of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General colouration, brown mottled with white. Head ventrally black, dorsally dark brown with numerous small cream coloured maculations; eyes dark brown; hind margin of frons perceptible. Pronotum concolorous with the head. Scutellum pale ochreous with dark brown markings. Tegmen short, the apical overlap steeply declivous, reticulate; veins and reticulations brown, the rest of the appendix opaque white. Appendix and supplementary appendix pale hyaline brown. A dark brown transverse fascia extends from the distal end of the claval suture to the costal margin of the tegmen. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black. Fore legs, femora black, tibiae and tarsi cream coloured. Middle legs femora black; tibiae and tarsi cream with black markings. Hind legs entirely black but for the spines on the hind tibiae which are whitish. Length 3.5 mm (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [151]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		23-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
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05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
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