Species Aneipo minerva Lambkin, 1978

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• Aneipo minerva Lambkin, K.J. 1978. The Australian achiline genera Aneipo Kirkaldy and Bunduica Jacobi (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Achilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17(1): 25-40 [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: 5.iv.1925), Royal National Park, Sydney, New South Wales.

Introduction

This is the least colourful of the described species of Aneipo being pale brown with some darker mottling. It has been recorded from the mid North Coast of New South Wales as far south as the Royal National Park, south of Sydney.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Nymph: fungivore.

Diagnosis

Coloration dull, mottled brown and stramineous. Posterior margin of vertex shallowly concave, lateral margins distinctly divergent posteriorly; fore wing lacking callus in subapical area of M; bursa copulatrix sclerite simple (single ventrally directed spine attached to a small, poorly defined base), vagina strongly sclerotised, aedeagal appendages asymmetrical. (Lambkin 1978)

ID Keys

Lambkin 1978: 28

Diagnosis References

Lambkin, K.J. 1978. The Australian achiline genera Aneipo Kirkaldy and Bunduica Jacobi (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Achilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17(1): 25-40 [35]

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