Species Aloeurymela gearyi Evans, 1965

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• Aloeurymela gearyi Evans, J.W. 1965. A new genus and species of Eurymelidae (Homoptera, Cicadelloidea). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 90(1): 85-86 [85].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: xi.1941, N. Geary), Cunnamulla, Queensland.

 

Introduction

An ipoine-like species in its brownish colouring but it was placed in the Eurymelini because of the presence of accessory processes on the subgenital plates. It appears to be primarily an inland species although records from SE Queensland and Perth in Western Australia are more coastal.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Channel Country (CHC), Mulga Lands (ML), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General appearance long and narrow, sometimes with a characteristic diamond shaped marking on the folded tegmina. Face of head pale apricot, or dark brown, mottled with yellow; lora and maxillary plates pale brown. crown and pronotum pale or dark brown, or black, mottled with pale brown or greyish white. Scutellum concolorous with the pronotum but a darker shade. Tegmen basally concolorous with the head and thorax with two irregular transverse whitish fasciae, which may be confluent in the costal area (Evans 1965).

Evans (1965) provided figures of the male genitalia.

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1965. A new genus and species of Eurymelidae (Homoptera, Cicadelloidea). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 90(1): 85-86 [85–86]

 

History of changes

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