Species Ledropsella monstrosa (Evans, 1939)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Platyledra monstrosa Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [45].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, King George Sound, Western Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Ledropsella monstrosa (Evans, 1939). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [101]

 

Introduction

This species has the most developed pronotal crest of the Australian Ledrini. The holotype, which was originally located in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, was relocated on permanent loan to the ANIC in 1969 (see Stevens & Carver 1986).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration dark brown. Head ventral surface with anteclypeus pear-shaped, not separated from the frontoclypeus by a transverse suture; maxillary plates visible only as a narrow border to the lora, lora apically depressed; frontoclypeus flattened, separated from the genae by a deep depression; ventral apex of head overhanging, spatulate. Crown rugose, wide, with three raised prominences close to the posterior border and with a central longitudinal ridge; ocelli on the crown closer to each other than to the eyes on each side or to the margin of the crown; eyes prominent. Pronotum rugose, raised into a hump, wide laterally; propleurae forming overhanging flaps. Scutellum swollen apically. Tegmen rounded apically, venation reticulate. Hind tibia, external surface flattened, bordered by a row of fine even spines. Length 6 mm (Evans 1939).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [45]

 

General References

Stevens, M.M. & Carver, M. 1986. Type-specimens of Hemiptera (Insecta) transferred from the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, to the Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 108(4): 263–266 [265]

 

History of changes

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