Species Bakeriana rubra (Evans, 1947)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bakeriola rubra Evans, J.W. 1947. Some new eurymelids from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 71(2): 225-227 [227].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: iv.1944, E.F. Riek), Moolooka (=Moorooka), Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is not well known and is only known from the type locality Moorooka, in SE Queensland. The J.W. Evans collection contains no specimens of the species.

 

Generic Combinations

• Bakeriana rubra (Evans, 1947). — Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [35].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration dark brown. Head with face evenly convex, dark brown mottled with reddish brown. Crown and pronotum irregularly mottled with dark brown and reddish brown. Crown and pronotum irregularly mottled with dark brown and reddish brown. Scutellum dark brown mottled anteromedially with pale reddish brown. Tegmen hyaline dark and reddish brown with oval white markings. Legs reddish brown, hind tibia with three spurs and several spines. Length 4.8 mm (Evans 1947).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1947. Some new eurymelids from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 71(2): 225-227 [227]