Species Eurymeloides punctata (Signoret, 1850)

Eurymeloides punctata (Signoret), adult.

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• Eurymela punctata Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [511].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMV ♀ (Signoret colln), New Holland.

  Subsequent designation 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 [10].
• Eurymela ocellata Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [511].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown, Australia.
• Eurymela trifasciata Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [512].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown, New Holland.
• Eurymela varia 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. [644].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH sex? (presented by the Earl of Derby), Hobart, Tasmania; BMNH sex? (from Mr Turner's collection), Swan River, Western Australia; BMNH 2 x sex? (presented by the Entomological Club), New Holland; BMNH 5 x sex?, New Holland.
• Eurymeloides cumulosus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [351].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland.
• Eurymeloides ornatus 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:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.
• Eurymeloides testaceus Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [101].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.
• Eurymeloides atromaculatus Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [103].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, quantity unknown, New South Wales.
• Eurymeloides kalimensis Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (Stevens (1985) provided details of a male specimen in AM labelled as the holotype from Bioto-Kabimu Rd, New Guinea but this doesn't match the original published label data. I have been unable to find a specimen in the JWE collection labelled from "Kalima"), Kalima.
• Eurymeloides motuana Evans, J.W. 1947. Some new eurymelids from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 71(2): 225-227 [225].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: v.1945, D.C. Swan), Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
• Eurymeloides nigrobrunnea Evans, J.W. 1947. Some new eurymelids from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 71(2): 225-227 [225].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: v.1943, C. Davis), Port George, Northwestern Australia.

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 [84] (synonymy of E. ocellata, E. trifasciata, E. varia, E. cumulosus, E. ornatus, E. testaceus and E. atromaculatus)
• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [64] (synonymy of E. motuana and E. nigrobrunnea)
• 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 [10] (synonymy of E. kalimensis)

Generic Combinations

• Eurymeloides punctata (Signoret, 1850). —
  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

This is a highly variable species with a wide distribution in most parts of Australia, although not recorded in the Northern Territory, and in Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus aggregata Deane & Maiden, 1900 [MYRTACEAE] Black Gum; Eucalyptus blakelyi Maiden, 1917 [MYRTACEAE] Blakely's Red Gum; Eucalyptus dalrympleana Maiden, 1920 [MYRTACEAE] White Gum; Eucalyptus nicholii Maiden & Blakely [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus pauciflora Sprengel [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus viminalis Hooker [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus mannifera Mudie [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus macarthurii Deane & Maiden [MYRTACEAE]).

Diagnosis

Cette espèce ressemble beaucoup à la précédente [Eurymela ocellata Signoret = Eurymeloides punctata (Signoret)], dont elle diffère par les taches des élytres, la supérieure est à peu près identique, mais l'inférieure n'en forme qu'une très large à son bord externe et allant en diminuant jusqu'au bord interne. La partie brune, surtout celle du disque cubital est parsemée de petites macules blanches. Elle en diffère encore par l'abdomen, qui est entièrement noir en dessus et jaune en dessous, et par l'appareil sexuel qui , ici , est jaune à sa base, tandis qu'il est entièrement noir dans l'espèce précédente. Long. 0,007. (Signoret 1850).

Head and pronotum black, mottled with yellow, pale brown mottled with yellow, or dark brown mottled with white. Scutellum concolorous with the pronotum, or with black or brown markings or entirely black or brown. Tegmen usually black, sometimes pale or dark brown. There may be two incomplete, or complete, whitish or hyaline fasciae, the anterior oblique and the posterior transverse; sometimes a third median fascia is present; clavus frequently mottled with white or light brown; termination of anal veins usually white. Hind tibia with three large and two small spurs on one edge and two large and one small spur on the adjacent one. Length ♂ 6–7 mm, ♀ 8–9 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 [64]

Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [511–512]

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