Species Zygina evansi (Ross, 1965)

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• Erythroneura evansi Ross, H.H. 1965. The phylogeny of the genus Erythroneura (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae). Zoologische Beiträge. Berlin 11: 247-270 [267].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K68421 ♂ (coll: J.W. Evans), Hobart, Tasmania.

 

Generic Combinations

• Zygina evansi (Ross, 1965). —
  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1231]

 

Introduction

This distinctively striped species is immediately recognisable by colour. It is widespread along the eastern parts of Australia from the wet tropics of North Queensland to Hobart, Tasmania. Its generic placement is currently unknown and it will probably be allocated a new genus along with a series of other species which have similar distinctive features of the male genitalia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Dorsum of head and thorax whitish with a pair of wide, arcuate black stripes, one on each side of the meson, extending from the front of the head to the scutellum. Legs whitish. Abdomen almost black. Elytra pale with three dark stripes extending halfway down the wing, then extending to the apex as paler stripes. Structure typical for [Erythroneura], except for eighth segment which has the sternite bordered anteriorly and laterally with a dark thickening, and has the ventral-lateral corners of the tergite produced into earlike lobes. Pygofer without process, simple. Apex of style with distinct mesal and lateral points and with a hump-like projection between them. Aedeagus simple, the base bulbose, the shaft narrow and tapering and with spicules along much of its length, its apex ending in a small, thin curved process. Length 3 mm (Ross 1965).

 

Diagnosis References

Ross, H.H. 1965. The phylogeny of the genus Erythroneura (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae). Zoologische Beiträge. Berlin 11: 247-270 [267]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)