Species Euryaulax vacuolus (Jacobi, 1928)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eoscarta vacuola Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [49].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NRS 11 specimens, sex unknown, Cedar Creek, Northern Territory; Mt Tamborine, Herberton, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Euryaulax vacuola (Jacobi, 1928). —
  Lallemand, V. 1949. Revision des Cercopinae. Mémoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 2(23): 1-193 [52]

 

Introduction

This species is not well known but is currently recorded from two localities in SW Queensland, several in N. Queensland and a few in the Northern Territory. It is fairly dull in colour in comparison with the other species in the genus which are boldly marked in orange and dark brown.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

"Scherbengelb, Pronotum und Scheitel dunkler, mehr oder weniger braun, Klauenglieder und Spitzen der Dornen an den Hinterschienen schwarz. Flügel hyalin. Stirnfurche beim [male] tiefer under apikad ausgedehnter, ihre Ränder schärfer als beim [female], wo sie mehr oder weniger verstreichen kann, Geäder der Deckflügel kaum hervortretend, Radius unsichtbar, M1 mit dem Costalrand durch 4-5 Schrägadern verbunden; Apikalzellen etwa doppelt so lang wie breit, rechteckig, gelegentlich durch Gabelung der Längsaderäste geteilt. [Male] Gonaphophysen sehr lang, zangenförmig, die Arme schwach gekrümmt mit gekreuzten Spitzen. Long. 6.5-8 mm." (Jacobi 1928).

Liang, et al. (2012) provided a comprehensive redescription.

 

ID Keys

Liang, et al. 2012: 155–159

 

Diagnosis References

Jacobi, A. 1928. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. Rhynchota, Homoptera. 1. Fulgoridae und Cercopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 19A(28): 1-50 [49]

Liang, A.P., Combéfis, É. & Jiang, G.M. 2012. Revision of the Spittlebug Genus Euryaulax Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Cercopidae) from Australia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 105(2): 150–164 [163]

 

History of changes

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