Species Citripo flandersi Evans, 1934

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• Citripo flandersi Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [161].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: S. Flanders), Queensland.

 

Introduction

This neatly speckled species is uncommon in collections. It has been collected on the native wild lime, Citrus glauca (Lindl.) Burkill (Rutaceae) in SE Queensland and named in honour of S.E. Flanders who worked on pest management of citrus in California and who collected the holotype.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Citrus glauca (Lindl.) Burkill [RUTACEAE] Desert Kumquat).

 

Diagnosis

Frons, crown and vertex mottled with yellow, the rest of the head is similarly coloured but the black areas are less dense; eyes black. Pronotum and scutellum yellowish grey mottled with black. Tegmen hyaline, densely mottled with dull brown; an anterior opaque somewhat rounded fascia, surrounded by an opaque black area. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface black. Legs blackish brown with white spots. Male parameres long and narrow, aedeagus simple. Length 5 mm; head width 2.3 mm (Evans 1934).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [161]

 

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
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED