Species Eurymela rubrolimbata Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Eurymela rubrolimbata Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [354].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905), Mittagong, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species, which is found in the lower east parts of New South Wales, has more extensive pale markings on the pronotum than other species of the genus. It is still difficult to identify without examination of the male genitalia, which were figured by Evans (1966).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Black or blackish; posterior margin of genae more or less widely pale reddish. Trochanters, basal half of femora (or almost all posterior femora), tibiae (mostly), claval commissure and costal margin (both narrowly) reddish. Tegmina purplish black, a stripe across middle of clavus, and a subcontiguous one across t'he corium, also a broader one nearer the apex, white. Male: last sternite slightly roundly emarginate, genital segment somewhat elongate. Female: penultimate sternite obtusangularly emarginate, last sternite truncate. Var: Posterior half of pronotum lemon yellow, encroaching medianly on black anterior half. Length: 9½–9¾ mm (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

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 [354–355]

 

General References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [68, 72]

 

History of changes

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