Species Eurymeloides minutum Evans, 1933

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• Eurymeloides minutum Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [87].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: 27.iii.1924), Matcham, near Gosford, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This tiny species (5 mm) was described from north of Sydney, New South Wales but recorded from Adelaide, South Australia by Evans (1966) and mapped at localities in SE Queensland and the New England region of New South Wales by Stevens (1985).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head black, mottled with yellow and brown; vertex as seen from above convex, not angular. Pronotum black with a few scattered small yellow spots. Scutellum entirely black. Tegmen hyaline, very dark shiny brown in colour with two white fasciae, the anterior divided into two more or less oval parts, both lying in the costal area; the posterior an irregular transverse fascia, interrupted near the middle; it is wider at the anterior than at the posterior border of the tegmen; the claval area has a number of small yellow spots on it and there are a few larger round yellow spots along the costal margin. Legs, coxae and femora pale yellowish brown; tibiae and tarsi dark brown with white spots at the bases of the spines; proximal tarsal segments of hind legs, white; hind tibiae with three spurs. Abdomen very dark brown; genital segments of female pale brown, of male dark brown. Length 5 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 [87–88]

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

 

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 [15]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
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