Species Aneono australensis (Kirkaldy, 1906)

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Regional Maps

• Empoa australensis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [363].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀ (coll.: vi.1904; possible holotype by monotypy), Brisbane, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Aneono australensis (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [259]

 

Introduction

This brightly coloured species is widespread in Australia from near Mackay in central coastal Queensland to Victoria with a single record from the Kimberley Research Station in northern Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus calophylla Lindley, 1841 [MYRTACEAE] Marri).

 

Diagnosis

Vertex pale sanguineous with a long line (widening basally) and two irregular wedges near the apical margin (more or less irregularly), a longitudinal line (narrower apically) and the posterior margin, greyish. Scutellum white, a pale orange square on basal two thirds, apical third with a blackish longitudinal line and a black spot on posterior angle. Tegmina orange, crimson, cinerous, dark brownish and whitish. Basal half of clavus, pale orange with a white spot; apical half whitish, extreme apex faintly orange. Basal third of corium whitish, extreme base sanguineous and orange. Middle third more or less crimson, a whitish spot at its apex; apical cells whitish, the veins and the transverse veins pale cinereous. Underside more or less dark brownish, face paler. Pronotum a trifle longer than the head. Tegmina with four apical cells, the third being sub-parallel-sided and oblong. Basal of the apical cells, the veins are more or less obsolescent. Length: (female) 3¼ mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [363–364]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED