Species Toropsis mellea (Evans, 1936)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oncopsis melleus Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [68].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: A.M. Lea), Hobart, Tasmania
  Comment: Evans (1966) gave the type locality as Dongarra (= Dongara), Western Australia but the type locality given in the original publication was Hobart, Tasmania.

 

Generic Combinations

• Toropsis mellea (Evans, 1936). —
  Hamilton, K.G.A. 1980. Contributions to the study of the world Macropsini (Rhynchota: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). The Canadian Entomologist 112: 875-932 [886]
• Macropsis melleus (Evans, 1936). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [166]

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the male holotype from Hobart, Tasmania, despite Evans (1966) stating that the type locality was Dongarra, Western Australia. No specimens of the species remain in the J.W. Evans collection.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head whitish yellow with brown maculations; arcuate markings brown, edged with black, eyes red; crown from above not visible in the centre. Pronotum concolorous with the head. Scutellum yellowish with black punctures, anterior lateral angles black. Tegmen transparent, suffused with very pale brown, the apex and the veins dark brown. Thorax ventral surface dark brown. Legs pale brown with dark brown markings. Abdomen ventral surface with each segment dark brown anteriorly and pale brown posteriorly; genital segments dark brown. Length 4.8 mm. head width 1.5 mm (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 [68]

 

History of changes

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