Species Eurymelessa moruyana (Distant, 1917)

Eurymelessa moruyana (Distant), adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymeloides moruyana Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [188].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: Murray), Moruya, New South Wales.
• Eurymela froggatti Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (Evans states that the type ♂ is in SAM and the species was described from "a long series of males and females" from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria but no specific details of the type data were provided), unknown: "Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria'.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [70]

Generic Combinations

• Eurymelessa moruyana (Distant, 1917). —
  Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [88]

Introduction

This species, widespread in eastern Australia and also recorded from Papua New Guinea, is distinctively coloured with a pale pronotum contrasting with an otherwise black colour.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus dalrympleana Maiden, 1920 [MYRTACEAE] White Gum).

Diagnosis

Vertex of head and pronotum bronzy brown; eyes dull ochraceous; face and body beneath black; legs dark castaneous; scutellum and tegmina shining black, the latter with a small cluster of greyish white spots near apex of costal area; vertex of head roundly, a little subangularly produced, thickly punctate; pronotum transversely, a little obliquely striate, with two small dark central foveae on anterior margin; scutellum finely punctate on basal half, after which it is suddenly depressed to apex and is finely transversely striate; posterior tibiae shortly coarsely spinose. Long., incl. tegm., 7 mm (Distant 1917).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [188]

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