Subfamily/Tribe: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini

Distribution: Qld, NSW, Vic, ACT, WA

Economic Status: A pest of leafy vegetables in most parts of Australia. It also attacks beans, carrots, potato and non-irrigated tomatoes. It causes distortion to the leaves and stunting of new growth.

Notes: The white spotting on the vertex and front half of the pronotum enables this species to be fairly readily differentiated from other species of Austroasca in Australia. The cotton leafhopper Amrasca terraereginae also has white spotting on the head but also bears a brown (sometimes yellowish) spot on the tegmen which is lacking in A. viridigrisea.

Document 8530, submitted 10 October 2000
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