Species Hecalus australis (Evans, 1941)

Hecalus australis (Evans) macropterous adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Hecalus australis (Evans)n brachypterous adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Parabolocratus australis Evans, J.W. 1941. New Australian leafhoppers. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65(1): 36-41 [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: v.1931, T.G. Campbell), Gregory Downs, N Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Hecalus australis (Evans, 1941). —
  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1215]
• Linnavuoriella australis (Evans, 1941). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [135]

Introduction

This species is widespread across tropical Australia from the Pilbara and Gascoyne bioregions in Western Australia to Queensland and along the eastern coast as far south as the Sydney basin. It has also been recorded in Papua New Guinea but does not extend into the Oriental region.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

General coloration pale yellowish green. A narrow transverse white band on anterior apex of head bordered on each side by a narrow brown line. Length ♂ 6 mm (Evans 1966). Evans (1966) figured the male genitalia.

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [132, 135]

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