Species Eocenchrea pulla Muir, 1924

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• Eocenchrea pulla Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [29].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM 1102 ♂ (coll.: i.1920, F. Muir), Hornsby, New South Wales.

Introduction

This is the only species of the genus recorded from outside Queensland, being described from Hornsby, a northern suburb of Sydney. It is very dark in colour.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph may be fungal feeder

Diagnosis

In build this species is similar to E. hiva. In colour it is all black or very dark brown, with the legs slightly lighter. At the node there is a faintly light spot. Lateral margins of pygofer angularly produced, ventral margin straight; anal segment small, about as long as broad, anus at apex; genital styles broadest at base, gradually narrowing to apex which is rounded. Male length 1.4 mm, tegmen 3.2 mm. (Muir 1924)

Diagnosis References

Muir, F. 1924. On some new and little-known Australian Fulgoroidea (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(1): 29-36 [29]

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