Species Eurymeloides bicincta (Erichson, 1842)

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• Eurymela bicincta Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [286].

  Type data:

   Neotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Mittagong, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation references:

  International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1993. Opinion 1706. Eurymeloides Ashmead, 1889 (Insecta, Homoptera): Eurymela bicincta Erichson, 1842 confirmed as the type species, and a neotype designated for E. bicincta. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 50: 72-73 [73].
• Eurymeloides bicinctellus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [352].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂ (coll.: i.1905, Koebele), Mittagong, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stevens, M.M. & Fletcher, M.J. 1991. Eurymeloides Ashmead, 1889 (Insecta, Homoptera): proposed confirmation of Eurymela bicincta Erichson, 1842 as the type species, and designation of a neotype for E. bicincta. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 48(3): 212-214 [213].

 

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 [83]

 

Generic Combinations

• Eurymeloides bicincta (Erichson, 1842). —
  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]

 

Introduction

The small species is very common in much of its range. The coloration is quite distinctive with the narrow anterior white fascia on the tegmen curved and oblique in contrast with the distal fascia which is much more transverse.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus blakelyi Maiden, 1917 [MYRTACEAE] Blakely's Red Gum; Eucalyptus delegatensis R.T.Baker, 1900 [MYRTACEAE] Gum-topped Stringybark; Eucalyptus gummifera (Gaertn., 1925) Hochr. [MYRTACEAE] Red Bloodwood; Eucalyptus macrorhyncha Bentham [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus robertsonii Blakely [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus pauciflora Sprengel [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Depressa, nigra, nitida, hemelytris fasciis duabus albis. — Long. 3½ lin. Depressa, nigra, nitida, supra submetallica. Caput punctato-rugulosum, infra tenuiter albo-marginatum, Thorax brevis, transversim strigosus, postice tenuiter albido-marginatus. Scutellum rugulosum, transversim impressum, apice acuminato testaceo, Hemelytra ruguloso-punctata, tenuiter testaceo-marginata, fasciis duabus albidis, altera angulata ante medium, altera subarcuata versus apicem. Pedes basi testacei, postici tibiis medio piceis, tarsis articulo primo basi albo (Erichson 1842).

Head fuscous mottled with straminaceous, the vertex mostly black or head entirely black. Pronotum brown or black with a narrow white posterior margin. Scutellum brown or black. Tegmen, shiny black with two narrow white fasciae, the anterior setretching from the middle of the costa to just anterior to the apex of the scutellum (when the tegmina are folded); the posterior transverse and widest at the costal margin; in addition to the fasciae there may be some small white spots on the tegmina. Legs, coxae, femora and first tarsal joint of hind legs, white, the rest black; hind tibiae with three spurs. Abdomen, ♂ ventral surface black but for the posterior margin of each segment, which is white; ♀ ventral surface white, genital segments black (there is a variety with the abdomen, coxae and femora scarlet). Length 7 mm. (Evans 1933).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 62

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [83]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [62]

 

History of changes

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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
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