Species Toropsis evansi (Metcalf, 1966)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropsis evansi Metcalf, Z.P. 1966. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle VI, Cicadelloidea. Part 14, Agalliidae. Raleigh N.C. : North Carolina State College 173 pp. [47] [replacement name; for Macropsis occidentalis Evans, 1936].
• Macropsis occidentalis Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [63] [junior homonym; of Macropsis occidentalis Van Duzee, 1889].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: F. Drummond), Bruce Rock, Western Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Toropsis evansi (Metcalf, 1966) [Hamilton (1980), in transferring this species from Macropsis where it was a junior homonym of Macropsis occidentalis Van Duzee 1889, into Toropsis, did not revert to the original name because it was a primary, rather than secondary, junior homonym (ICZN Article 57.2)]. —
  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 pale greenish brown species is only known from the female holotype from the Avon wheatbelt in Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head punctate, almost flat, with a slight median ridge on the vertex; hind margin produced dorsally; from above angularly produced, the crown only visible at the sides against the eyes. Frons ochreous, the rest of the head greenish and ochreous but for two diffuse black areas on the vertex; eyes reddish brown. Pronotum punctate, pale greenish brown, steeply declivous anteriorly and higher in the middle than at the sides. Scutellum smooth, yellowish; apex green. Tegmen transparent, tinted slightly with yellowish green; appendix small, barely perceptible. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale green. Legs pale yellowish green; tarsi pale brown. Length 4mm, head width 1mm (Evans 1936).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [63–64]

 

History of changes

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