Species Ipoides brunomaculatus Evans, 1947

Ipoides brunomaculatus Evans, adult.

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• Ipoides brunomaculata 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 [226].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll.: v.1945, D.C. Swan), Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Introduction

A boldly marked species from the tropical parts of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It was originally described from Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Pilbara (PIL), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head, but for the vertex, yellowish ivory with a median longitudinal dark brown stripe. Vertex pale brown irregularly mottled with chestnut brown. Crown and pronotum pale chestnut brown mottled with yellowish ivory. Scutellum deep chestnut brown with two pale semicircular markings. Tegmen pale hyaline brown with irregular white markings; veins white, brown in part. Legs very pale brown. Length 5 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 [226]

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