Species Austrocerus ipo (Kirkaldy, 1906)
Austrocerus ipo (Kirkaldy), adult.
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Species Austrocerus ipo (Kirkaldy, 1906)
Compiler and date details
28 September 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Idiocerus ipo Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [466].
Type data:
Lectotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: vi. 1904), Brisbane, Queensland.Subsequent designation references:
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [70].
Generic Combinations
- Austrocerus ipo (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [70]
Introduction
This species, which has been recorded along the east coast of mainland Australia, has distinctive scarlet markings on the pronotum and neighbouring parts of the tegmen.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Bright greenish or greenish yellow, immaculate. Pronotum (except lateral margins), scutellum, axillary cell of clavus, commissure, etc., crimson. Eyes black. Tegmina hyaline, tinged with greenish basally and exteriorly; veins greenish. Pleural region, etc., pale yellowish. Clypeus broad, fairly parallel-sided. Female: Last segment very obtusangularly emarginate, valve pale yellowish, transverse, apically truncate, sides rounded. Ovipositor crimson. Length 4 1/8 mm (Kirkaldy 1906).
Webb (1983) provides description and figures of the male genitalia.
ID Keys
Webb 1983: 67
Diagnosis References
Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [466–467]
Webb, M.D. 1983. Revision of the Australian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 92: 1-147 [70]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 30-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |