Species Tortor pulchra Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tortor pulchra Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [154].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂, Sunnybrook, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species, which is relatively drab compared with other species of the genus, is the most widespread within Australia, extending from the Sydney basin on the east coast of New South Wales around the tropical north of Queensland and the Northern Territory to Wyndham in the north of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration pale yellow or whitish. Crown of head with a median orange longitudinal stripe and usually, on each side, a pair of lateral orange stripes; all five stripes continuing onto the pronotum. On the face of the head the margin of the maxillary plates forming a continuous border with the anterior margin of the slightly convex anteclypeus. Frontoclypeus narrowly, medially flattened, sloping laterally towards the antennae. Tegmen pale yellow or whitish with a small brown marking at apex of claval suture. Length ♂ 6.8, ♀ 9 mm (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 [154–155]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		30-Sep-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)