Species Toropsis aenea (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oncopsis aeneus Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [154].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: xi.1935, R.E. Turner), Yanchep, Western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Toropsis aenea (Evans, 1942). —
  Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [886]
• Macropsis aeneus (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [165]

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the type locality of Yanchep in the Swan Valley of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface sordid yellow, eyes red. Crown narrow, visible only against the eyes on each side. Pronotum golden brown. Scutellum yellowish brown. Tegmen bronzy hyaline with a longitudinal white streak lying along the first cubital vein proximally. Thorax ventral surface black. Abdomen ventral surface yellowish brown. Length 4 mm (Evans 1942).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [154]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		19-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
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