Species Chinaella shephardi Evans, 1936

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• Chinaella shephardi Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [77].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀ (coll.: F.W. Shephard), Broken Hill, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This small dark species is known from several inland arid locations across three states of Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Murchison (MUR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Frons and vertex reddish brown mottled with yellow; clypeus, lorae and maxillary plates black; eyes grey. Pronotum reddish brown, slightly declivous. Scutellum yellowish brown with dark brown markings. Tegmen reddish brown with a white steak along the costal margin and a purplish brown stripe lying along the claval suture; veins brown apically. Thorax ventral surface and legs dark brown. Abodmen ventral surface pale brown. Length 4 mm (Evans 1936)

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [77]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		01-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)