Species Tolasella lapsa (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Neovulturnus lapsus Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM 5203 ♂ (coll.: H. Hacker), Blunder, S of Ravenshoe, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tolasella lapsa (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 lapsus (Evans, 1937). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [215]

 

Introduction

This species is distinctive in its almost entirely black coloration. it was described from Blunder, near Ravenshoe, North Queensland but has also been collected at Scheyville, in the Sydney basin of New South Wales. Its distribution along the eastern coast of mainland Australia is probably quite extensive.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration black. Head entirely black but for the eyes which are dark brown and the ocelli which are whitish. Pronotum and scutellum black. Tegmen black with numerous small white spots on the proximal half and somewhat larger white spots distally. The two spotted area are not adjacent to each other but are separated by a black transverse area. Appendix and supplementary appendix opaque brown. Thorax ventral surface and legs black. Abdomen ventral surface greyish black. Length 2.8 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 [152]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		01-Nov-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)