Species Eurymela distincta Signoret, 1850

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• Eurymela distincta Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [506].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, quantity unknown, New Holland.
• Eurymela vicina Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [506].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, quantity unknown, New Holland.
• Eurymela speculum Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [641].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH sex unknown (Presented by the Haslar Hospital), New Holland; BMNH sex unknown (Presented by the Rev. Augustus Beaufort), Van Diemens Land; BMNH sex unknown (from Capt Parry's collection), Moreton Bay, Queensland; BMNH 2, sex unknown (Presented by Lieut. Smith), New Holland; BMNH 2, sex unknown (Presented by J.G. Children Esq.), New Holland; BMNH sex unknown (Presented by R. Butler, Esq.), Van Diemen's Land; BMNH sex unknown (from Dr Hooker's collection), Van Diemen's Land; BMNH sex unknown (from Mr Gould's collection), New Holland; BMNH sex unknown (from Mr Argent's collection), New Holland; BMNH sex unknown, New Holland
  Comment: total syntypes: 12.
• Eurymela lubra Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [355].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Walker, F. 1852. Supplement. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 4 pp. 1119-1169. [1149] (synonymy of E. vicina and E. speculum)
• Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [104] (synonymy of E. lubra)

 

Introduction

This is one of the best known and largest species in the genus. It can easily be confused with E. fenestrata although it tends to be more blue-black with less red colouring. It is distributed widely in the SE parts of Australia, including Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus bridgesiana R.T.Baker, 1898 [MYRTACEAE] Apple Box; Eucalyptus botryoides Smith, 1797 [MYRTACEAE] Bangalay; Eucalyptus aggregata Deane & Maiden, 1900 [MYRTACEAE] Black Gum; Eucalyptus viminalis Hooker [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus macarthurii Deane & Maiden [MYRTACEAE]; Hakea sericea Schrader & Wendland [PROTEACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Cette espèce, qu'il ne faut pas confondre avec la fenestrata, à laquelle elle ressemble , en diffère par la taille, beaucoup plus grande, par la couleur uniforme, sans aucun bord rougeâtre, par l'absence de la tache basilaire des élytres, et surtout par la présence d'une troisième tache, près de la supérieure, et celle-ci sur le disque cubital, et séparée de l'autre par la suture clavienne qui est entièrement noire, par les côtés de la poitrine brunâtre; par l'appendice vulvaire plus grand et d'un noir uniforme. Long. 0.013–014 (Signoret 1850).

Head black but for the maxillary plates, which are white or cream. Pronotum and scutellum black. Tegmen bluish or purplish black, usually with one, two or three whitish fasciae; costal margin black. Legs, coxae and femora proximally scarlet, remainder black. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface scarlet. Length, ♂ 10–12 mm; ♀ 12–14 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [71]

Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [506]

 

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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