Species Batracomorphus viridis (Evans, 1936)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurinoscopus viridis Evans, J.W. 1936. The Bythoscopidae of Australia (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 61-83 [75].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Adelaide, South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Batrachomorphus viridis (Evans, 1936). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [207]

 

Introduction

This species was regarded as a nomen dubium by Knight (1983) because the type was missing from AM. However, two male specimens, matching the original type data and identified as Eurinoscopus viridis by J.W. Evans are in the J.W. Evans collection and may either include the missing type or be duplicate specimens. Examination of one of these males indicates that it is B. angustatus (Osborn) although smaller than other specimens of that species.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head emerald green but for the frons and ocelli, which are yellowish; eyes dark brown. Pronotum emerald green. Scutellum emerald green, lateral angles and apex yellow. Tegmen transparent, suffused with pale yellowish green. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface and legs pale yellowish green. Length 5 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 [75]

 

General References

Knight, W.J. 1983. The leafhopper genus Batracomorphus (Cicadellidae) in the eastern Oriental and Australian Regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 47(2): 27-210 [206] (nomen dubium)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)