Species Eurymelops latifascia (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymela latifascia 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. [639].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex? (Presented by Capt. Gray), King George Sound, Western Australia.
• Eurymela pascoei Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [106].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, quantity unknown (Pascoe collection), Sydney, New South Wales.

 

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 [82] (synonymy of E. pascoei)

 

Generic Combinations

• Eurymelops latifascia (Walker, 1851). —
  Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [82]

 

Introduction

This species is intermediate in colouring between E. rubrovittata (Amyot & Serville), which tends to have more black than red, and E. generosa (Stål) which has more red than black. The three species show differences in male genitalia but an examination of the species limits using molecular data may show that they comprise one highly variable species. E. latifascia is found across southern Australia from SW Western Australia to the Sydney basin in New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Nigra, rufo varia, fronte fulro bivittato, femoribus basi rufis, metatarsis posticis subtus fulvis, alis anticis rufo bifasciatis et ad costam viltatis, alis posticis nigro-fuscis basi rufis. Black: epistoma red, with two large black spots on each side in front; front with conical furrows, adorned on each side with a slender, short, oblique, tawny stripe; vertex red along the middle of the hind border: disk of the fore-chest with a short, conical, red stripe, which rests on a red band: hind-chest red: abdomen tinged with lead-colour: legs black; thighs towards the base and hips red; hind metatarsi tawny beneath; fore-wings black, with two very broad red bands, which are connected along the fore border; the first connected with the base by a stripe along the fore border: hind-wings blackish brown, paler towards the base, which is red. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 13 lines. (Walker 1851).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 73

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [73]

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. [639–640]

 

History of changes

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