Species Aloeurymela langfieldi Evans, 1966

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• Aloeurymela langfieldi Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [59].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: ix.1957, C. Langfield), Kimberley Research Station, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the type locality which is the Kimberley Research Station at Kununurra in the far NE corner of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head lemon yellow, or pale yellow, with brown markings. Pronotum pale buff mottled with pale brown, posteriorly narrowly whitish. Scutellum pale buff with a broad, central, longitudinal and triangular lateral, dark brown markings. Tegmen with a broad irregular whitish transverse hyaline fascia parallel with the sides of the scutellum, broadly bordered on each side with a hyaline coffee brown area; apically transparent or pale brownish hyaline (Evans 1966).

Evans (1966) provided figures of the male genitalia of both species of Aloeurymela.

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [59]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)