Species Eurymeloides walkeri Distant, 1908

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymeloides walkeri Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [102].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: J.J. Walker), Albany, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This nicely coloured species is only known from the southwest of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus gomphocephala DC, 1828 [MYRTACEAE] Tuart).

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum and scutellum ochraceous; vertex with four prominent black spots which are sometimes more or less connected; pronotum with the anterior margins medially interrupted and not reaching lateral angles and two central longitudinal fasciae not reaching basai margin, black; scutellum with three large basai black spots, one triangular at each basai angle, and the central connected with a small discal triangular black spot (in a second specimen ail these spots are fused); head beneath with two large subquadrate black basai spots and with a smaller spot of the same colour beneath each eye, face with the margins and a central line black; body beneath and legs ochraceous, a subapical annulation to femora and the tibiae and tarsi black, small spots to posterior tibiae and base of posterior tarsi ochraceous; tegmina black, a transverse spot not quite crossing disk of clavus, a central arcuate spot, a large costal spot before apex and above which are two smaller spots, some small indistinct spots on the claval suture, and sometimes the upper claval margin greyish white. Long. incl. tegm. ♀. 7½ mm. (Distant 1908).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 62

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [102]

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

 

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