Species Eurymela fenestrata Le Peletier & Serville, 1825

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• Eurymela fenestrata Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, A.L.M. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1825. Tettigometre, Tettigometra and Tettigone, Tettigonia. Olivier's Encylopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes 10: 600-613 [604].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, 'du Brésil' (type locality is clearly in error).
• Eurymela ruficollis Burmeister, H.C.C. 1838. Rhynchota. No. 2. Genera Insectorum 1: pls 6, 12, 14, 15 [14].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown, New Holland.
• Eurymela discoidalis Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [505].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, quantity unknown, New Holland.
• Eurymela suffusa 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. [640].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown (presented by James Wilson Esq.), New South Wales.
• Eurymela plebeia 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.
• Eurymela subnigricans Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [105].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: W.W. Froggatt), Rose Bay, New South Wales.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [75] (all synonymies)

 

Introduction

This common and widespread species shows considerable variation in the extent of the red/orange colouring with some overlap with the colouring found on another largish common species, E. distincta Signoret. An intensive study using molecular data is needed to confirm the number of valid species of Eurymela. Adults and nymphs are a common sight on eucalypt trees crowded together with their attendant ants.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Eurymela tota punctato-coriacea, atro-violacea; capitis lateribus thoraceque subtus et femorum basi pallidis; abdomine rubido, elytri cujusque maculis duabus parvis pellucidis, una marginali; alis azureis.
Longueur 3 lig. ½. Entièrement chagrinée et ponctuée; d'un noir-violacé un peu métallique; côtés de la tête, dessous du corselet, hanches et base des cuisses, d'un jaune pale. Dessous de l'abdomen rougeâtre ainsi que la base extérieure des élytres; celles-ci ayant chacune deux taches blanchâtres, transparentes; l'une très petite placée vers le milieu de l'élytre, l'autre posée près de l'extrémité et sur le bord extérieur; ailes azurées ainsi que le dessous des élytres (Le Peletier et Serville 1825).

 

Diagnosis References

Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, A.L.M. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1825. Tettigometre, Tettigometra and Tettigone, Tettigonia. Olivier's Encylopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes 10: 600-613 [604]

 

History of changes

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