Species Eurymelita terminalis (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymela terminalis 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. [642].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 4 specimens, sex unknown, Adelaide, South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Eurymelita terminalis (Walker, 1851). —
  Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [89]

 

Introduction

This is a quite distinctive species with red and black colouring, instead of the usual black with white markings, and with a curved spur on the ventral margin of the fore femora. It is distributed mainly in inland areas of the Murray Darling Basin although there are records from the southwest of Western Australia and the type locality is Adelaide, South Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Ferruginea, capite flavo bimaculato, scutello piceo, abdomine rufo apice nigro, pedibus nigris, femoribus fulvis, alis anticis fuscis albo bifasciatis. Ferruginous: head yellow on each side in front, adorned between the eyes with an irregular black band, from whence a black stripe proceeds to the mouth: scutcheon piceous, ferruginous at the tip and along the border on each side; abdomen red, with a black tip: legs black; hips and thighs tawny; tips of the latter black: fore-wings brown, with two white bands; first band at one-third of the length of the wing, slightly oblique, emitting three tawny stripes to the base, the middle one, in some cases, very broad; second band beyond two-thirds of the length of the wing, broadest on the fore border; hind borders tawny: hind-wings bluish brown. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 10 lines. Var. B. No black band between the eyes. (Walker 1851).

 

Diagnosis References

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. [642]

 

History of changes

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