Species Tonnoiria tasmaniae Lallemand, 1954
Tonnoiria tasmaniae Lallemand, adult.
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Species Tonnoiria tasmaniae Lallemand, 1954
- Tonnoiria tasmaniae Lallemand, V. 1954. Description de quatre nouveaux Cercopides (Rhynch., Homoptera). Treubia 22(3): 501-504 [501].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: xi.1931, A.L. Tonnoir), Blundell's, Australian Capital Territory.
Paratype(s) BMNH ♀ (coll.: xi.1931, A.L. Tonnoir), Blundell's, Australian Capital Territory; BMNH 15♂ ♀ (Adventure Bay, Cradle Valley, Eagle Hawk: coll.: A.L. Tonnoir; Sang, x.1937, Copping, xi.1936, Uxbridge, xii.1936, coll.: J.W. Evans), Tasmania.
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Tonnoiria tasmaniana Lallemand, 1954 [subsequent misspelling]. —
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [315]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: xylem feeder.
Diagnosis
[Male] "Noir, metasternum ocre brun. Sur les élytres, fréquemment au début du tiers postérieur dans la cellule costale, une petite tache claire plus ou moins hyaline. [female] plus pâle, brun plus ou moins fortement noirâtre pouvant être ocre brun' la petite tache hyaline des élytres est fréquemment plus grande que chez le [male] et peut même s'étendre sur une grande partie de la corie. Lames latérales des [male] assez longues, en pince de crabbe, redressées vers le haut." (Lallemand 1954)
Length male, female, 4-7.1 mm. General coloration brown, dark brown or black. Crown brown or black, or frons black and vertex brown. Pronotum black, brown or entirely black, posteriorly brown. Scutellum always black. Tegmen with anterior and posterior areas of whitish pubescence and sometimes with a small or large whitish hyaline area against the costal margin. Male genitalia figured (Evans 1966)
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [315]
Lallemand, V. 1954. Description de quatre nouveaux Cercopides (Rhynch., Homoptera). Treubia 22(3): 501-504 [501]
History of changes
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