Species Uloprora risdonensis Evans, 1939
Uloprora risdonensis Evans, adult.
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Species Uloprora risdonensis Evans, 1939
Compiler and date details
20 March 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Uloprora risdonensis Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [44].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: V.V. Hickman), Risdon, Tasmania.
Introduction
This species, which has been found at widely separated localities in eastern Australia from Dunwich in SE Queensland to Tasmania, is immediately recognisable because of the peculiar sinuate prolongation of the front of the head.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Tas: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head punctate, covered with sparse white hairs; ventral surface chestnut brown posteriorly, black anteriorly but for the frontoclypeus which is grey between the antennal pits. Vertex greyish brown with a pair of longitudinal dark brown stripes on each side. Pronotum punctate, chestnut brown. Tegmen hyaline, veins light and dark brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs light and dark brown. Length 5 mm (Evans 1939).
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [44]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 27-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |