Species Toropsis bella (Evans, 1971)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropsis bella Evans, J.W. 1971. Leafhoppers from New Guinea and Australia belonging to the subfamilies Macropsinae and Agalliinae with notes on the position of Nionia Ball and Magnentius Pruthi (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 13(2): 343-360 [356].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K69192 ♀ (coll.: x.1966, J.W. Evans & F. Evans), Albany, Western Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Toropsis bella (Evans, 1971). —
  Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [886]

 

Introduction

This is the most colourful of all Australian macropsines and easy to recognised because of this. It is only known from SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Coloration bright green and red. Face of head wider than long, yellowish brown; frontoclypeus and vertex medially sometimes dark brown. Anteclypeus parallel-sided, widening anteriorly beyond sides of lora which are extensive and completely defined. Crown lacking. Pronotum with transverse striations, anteriorly declivous, visible narrowly in ventral aspect, red or brown. Scutellum almost as long as pronotum, dark reddish brown, laterally yellow; muscle impressions and apex black. Proximal 2/3 of tegmen, including veins, green; anal margin broadly black; costal margin to vein R1a broadly red; apex hyaline brown; veins red. Ventral surface of thorax black, of abdomen, greenish yellow. Legs yellow, spurs on hind tibiae, brown. Length "♂", ♀ 4mm.

Note: Evans (1971) gave the measurement of 4 mm for both ♂ and ♀ but stated that ♂ specimens were lacking so the length measurement is presumed to apply only to the female.

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1971. Leafhoppers from New Guinea and Australia belonging to the subfamilies Macropsinae and Agalliinae with notes on the position of Nionia Ball and Magnentius Pruthi (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 13(2): 343-360 [356]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		19-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)