Species Neovulturnus sordidus (Evans, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vulturnus sordidus Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [153].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM 5205 ♂ (coll.: H. Hacker), Samsonvale, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neovulturnus sordidus (Evans, 1937). —
  Evans, J.W. 1972. Characteristics and relationships of the Penthimiinae and some new genera and new species from New Guinea and Australia; also new species of Drabescinae from New Guinea and Australia. Pacific Insects 14(1): 169-200 [180]

 

Introduction

This species is unknown to the compiler. It is only known from the type locality in SE Queensland. A specimen in the JW Evans collection associated with this species name bears a determination label by Evans of "nr Vulturnus punctulatus" which raises the possibility that the names are synonyms. Both holotypes are males so an examination of the two type specimens would determine whether they are both valid species.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventrally black; apical thickened margin pale brown, crown of head, pronotum and scutellum shining brown with scattered small reddish brown spots. Tegmen proximal two thirds concolorous with the head, distal border, appendix and supplementary appendix dark hyaline brown. Adjacent to the apical brown border of the tegmen is a transverse hyaline white fascia across which the veins are outlined in brown. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black. Legs black, the spines on the hind tibiae brown and black. Length 3.8 mm. (Evans 1937).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea: Homoptera). Part 6. — Penthimiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 149-156 [153]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		23-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)