Species Tolasella pallida (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Neovulturnus pallida 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 5201 ♀ (coll.: H. Hacker), Mt Glorious, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tolasella pallida (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 pallidus (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 nicely marked species is only known from a few specimens scattered along the eastern coastline from SE Queensland to NE Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration black or brown, the scutellum white or yellow. Head ventrally black or very dark brown; external borders of maxillary plates white. Crown of head and antennal ledges medianly white. Pronotum light or dark brown mottled with cream or grey. Scutellum either entirely white or very pale yellow, or whitish with dark brown markings. Tegmen whitish, mottled with an irregular and variable pattern of light or dark brown. Thorax ventral surface black, with or without dark brown markings. Abdomen ventral surface light or dark brown. Length 4 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		01-Nov-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
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