Species Eurymeloides marmorata (Burmeister, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymela marmorata Burmeister, H.C.C. 1838. Rhynchota. No. 2. Genera Insectorum 1: pls 6, 12, 14, 15 [pl. 14].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZIH sex, quantity unknown, New Holland.
• Bythoscopus nigroaeneus 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. [867].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex? (from Dr Hooker's collection), Tasmania.
• Bythoscopus anguliferus 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. [868].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex? (presented by the Haslar Hospital), New Holland.
• Eurymeloides zonatus Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [104].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, New South Wales.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 19(9): 479-504 [495] (synonymy of B. nigroaeneus)
• Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [86] (synonymy of E. zonatus)
• Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [88] (synonymy of B. anguliferus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Eurymeloides marmorata (Burmeister, 1838). —
  Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [86]

 

Introduction

Most authors credit this name to Burmeister (1838) but Burmeister credits it to Germar. However, no record of Germar having published the name appears to exist. The species is smallish and recorded from scattered locations in SE Australia between SE Queensland and western Victoria. Stevens (1985) recorded it from Eucalyptus viminalis Labill.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus viminalis Hooker [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Pallide-testacea, fusco-conspersa , elytris fasciis duabus convergentibus nigris; femoribus sanguineis, tibiis tarsisque nigris, posticorum articulo primo albo Long, 3½. (Burmeister 1838).

Head black mottled with light or dark brown. Pronotum light brown mottled with black and dark brown. Scutellum black, sometimes with pale markings posteriorly. Tegmen usually brown, sometimes blackish with two indistinct, irregular yellowish or reddish, transverse fasciae; also numerous small pale markings with, together with the fasciae, may occupy at least half the area of the tegmen. Hind tibia with three large spurs and two small ones on one edge and two spurs on the adjacent edge. Length ♂ 7 mm (Evans 1966).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 62

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [66]

 

General References

Stevens, M.M. 1985. Notes on the status, taxonomy and biology of the genus Eurymeloides Ashmead (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelidae). General and Applied Entomology 17: 9-16 [11]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED