Species Alotartessus iambe (Kirkaldy, 1907)

Alotartessus iambe (Kirkaldy)

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Tartessus iambe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [46].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Mittagong, New South Wales.
• Tartessus mackerrasi Evans, J.W. 1937. Australian Leafhoppers (Jassoidea, Homoptera). Part 5. — Euscelidae (in part). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1936: 51-71 [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: I. Mackerras), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [194] (synonymy of Tartessus mackerrasi Evans)

Generic Combinations

• Alotartessus iambe (Kirkaldy, 1907).

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.