Species Myopsalta atrata (Goding & Froggatt, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melampsalta atrata Goding, F.W. & Froggatt, W.W. 1904. Monograph of the Australian Cicadidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29(3): 561-670, pls xviii, xix [638].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC 32-007852 ♂ (Myopsalta atrata (Goding & Froggatt) was redescribed and a lectotype designated by Emery, Emery & Popple 2015 in light of newly collected specimens that match the original type material).
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC 32-007858 ♂;
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 3♂, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Emery, N.J., Emery, D.L. & Popple, L. 2015. Redescription of Myopsalta atrata (Goding and Froggatt) and Description of Two New Species of Myopsalta Moulds (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Central Western New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 67(6): 185-199 [186] (http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.67.2015.1646).

Generic Combinations

• Myopsalta atrata (Goding & Froggatt, 1904). —
  Moulds, M.S. 2012. A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). Zootaxa 3287: 1-262 [151, 162]
• Notopsalta atrata (Goding & Froggatt, 1904).

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Open woodland.

History of changes