Species Eurymeloides musgravei Evans, 1966

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• Eurymeloides musgravei Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [67].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: xii.1954, A. Musgrave), Kurrajong, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This species is not common in collections and has been found along the southeastern parts of mainland Australia. A single record of the species from the wet tropics of North Queensland needs to be confirmed.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head black, mottled with brown; anteclypeus dark brown, lora pale brown, maxillary plates brindled. Pronotum brown mottled with pale brown. Scutellum concolorous with pronotum but a darker shade. Tegmen dark brown with circular pale markings and with two irregular pale white, or hyaline, fasciae. The anterior fascia may be less distinct than the posterior one. Vein 1A apically white. Hind tibia with three large and one small spur on one margin and two on another. Length ♂ 4.2, ♀ 6 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 [67]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)