Species Tolasella maculosa (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Neovulturnus maculosus 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 5202 ♂ (coll.: H. Hacker), Brookfield, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tolasella maculosa (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 [216]
• Neodartus maculosus (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 small brown species with pale spots appears to be distributed in the higher country from SE Queensland to the Blue Mountains and Kosciuszko regions of New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration black. Head ventrally longitudinally concave, black; crown black with an anterior median more or less circular pale area with or without a few or several brown spots. Hind margin of frons indistinct. Pronotum shining black. Scutellum entirely black or entirely pale yellow. Tegmen opaque black with numerous whitish spots lying between the veins. Appendix and supplementary appendix hyaline. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs black. 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 [152]

 

History of changes

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