Species Tonnoiria chinai (Hacker, 1926)

Tonnoiria chinai (Hacker), adult male.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eoscarta chinai Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [244].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Ho. 3028 ♀ (coll.: H. Hacker), National Park, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [244]

Generic Combinations

• Tonnoiria chinai (Hacker, 1926). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [315]

Introduction

This species, from National Park, Queensland, was based on a single female specimen. The brown tegmen with subapical hyaline area is distinctive.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

Diagnosis

Female. Head posteriorly declivous, apically flat, shape (excluding the eyes) semicircular, centrally longitudinally carinate; ocelli red, about twice as far from the eyes as from each other; outside the ocelli are two sulci, more separated anteriorly; frons smooth, anteriorly swollen, projecting crescent shaped beyond vertex when viewed from above, somewhat flattened along cenre, with a row of obscure transverse ridges on each side; pronotum transversely punctate-striate, widest at base of tegmina; a central longitudinal carine, most distinct anteriorly, on each side of which is a smooth callose spot; scutellum as wide as long, finely transversely striate; tegmina rather narrow, subparallel, finely punctured; a groove at base below costa, in a line with which, just before middle, is a round embossed spot. Head fuscous, lighter on sides of anterior margin, and posteriorly beetwteen ocelli and eyes; pronotum fuscous, lighter on each lateral angulation; scutellum and abdomen dorsally dark brown, pygofer lighter; frons black, apically fuscous; clypeus and rostrum light brown; legs brown, posterior pair yellowish brown, tarsi and tips of spines blackish, ventral surface of abdomen brown; tegmina fuscous, covered with fine light pubescence; a long triangular whitish patch on anterior border past middle, continuing to apex, nervures brown; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures brown. Length of head and body 6 mm. exp. 14 mm. (Hacker 1926)

Diagnosis References

Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [244]

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