Species Tumocerus grandis Evans, 1942

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• Tumocerus grandis Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [149].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: 11-21.i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, 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).

 

Introduction

This is the larger of the two described species. It is unknown to the compiler.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head pale buff, eyes dark brown. Head wider in the centre than against the eyes with two round black markings. Pronotum concolorous with the crown. Scutellum with two small brown spots lying on each side of the centre, muscle impressions dark brown. Tegmen pale hyaline brown, veins brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale buff. Length 5.5 mm (Evans 1942).

This species can be distinguished from T. varius by its larger size and by being less heavily marked with brown (Webb 1983).

 

ID Keys

Webb 1983: 64

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [149]

Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [65]

 

History of changes

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