Species Aloipo ooldeae (Evans, 1934)

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• Ipoides ooldeae Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [156].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll.: A.M. Lea), Ooldea, South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Aloipo ooldeae (Evans, 1934). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [36]

 

Introduction

This small brown species is mainly distributed along the Murray Darling Basin from SE Queensland to South Australia although the type locality is Ooldea which is near the border between the Great Victoria Desert and the Nullarbor Plains in western South Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Heterodendrum oleifoliuim Desfontaines [SAPINDACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Crown from above wider against the eyes than in the centre; head pale yellowish brown with a few scattered brown spots; eyes and ocelli black, frons distinctly convex (more so than in other species of the genus [Ipoides]). Pronotum and scutellum either entirely greyish yellow or greyish yellow mottled with brown or dark brown. Tegmen transparent; veins brown with white bars; appendix continued very narrowly around the apex of the tegmen. Thorax ventral surface pale yellowish brown. Legs pale yellowish brown streaked with dark brown. Abdomen ventral surface pale yellowish brown. Male subgenital plates very narrow apically, aedeagus with a posterior dorsal thickening. Length 5 mm; head width 2.2 mm (Evans 1934, as Ipoides ooldeae).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [156–157]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
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