Species Eurymeloides perpusilla (Walker, 1858)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymela perpusilla Walker, F. 1858. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq. London : British Museum pp. 1-117. [83].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, Tasmania.

 

Generic Combinations

• Eurymeloides perpusilla (Walker, 1858). —
  Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [86]

 

Introduction

This is a distinctive species with its pale yellowish curved stripe along the tegmina. It is quite common in its range. Evans (1966) gave the type locality as "New South Wales" but Walker's original description has Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Nigra, subtus testacea; facies testacea, nigro vittata; prothorax guttis nonnullis maculisque duabus testaceis; abdomen luteum, apice nigrum; coxa et femora lutea; tarsi postici basi testacei; alae anticae vitta costali lutea, fascia subapicali sordide vitrea antice dilatata; posticae nigricante-cinereae. Black, testaceous beneath. Face testaceous, with a black stripe. Prothorax with some testaceous dots, and with a testaceous marginal spot on each side. Abdomen luteous, black at the tip. Coxse and femora luteous; hind tarsi testaceous at the base. Fore wings witli a luteous stripe extending from the base to beyond the middle of the costa, and with a subapical dingy vitreous band dilated in front, and in which the veins are luteous. Hind wings blackish gray. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 5 lines. (Walker 1858).

 

Diagnosis References

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

Walker, F. 1858. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq. London : British Museum pp. 1-117. [83]

 

History of changes

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