Species Eurymelops rubrovittata (Amyot & Serville, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymela rubrovittata Amyot, C.J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Hémiptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Rue Hautefeuille 10 B13 676 pp. [555].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, locality unknown.
• Eurymela rubrofasciata Stål, C. 1865. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 145-165 [156].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♀, quantity unknown, New Holland.

 

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 [80] (synonymy of E. rubrofasciata)

 

Generic Combinations

• Eurymelops rubrovittata (Amyot & Serville, 1843). —
  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 species is more common and widespread than other similarly coloured species of the genus. It is mainly associated with drier inland areas of southern Australia.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Noire, avec une bande rouge au bord postérieur du prothorax, cette bande se prolongeant en pointe au milieu sur le disque, et deux andes transverses de la même couleur sur les élytres. Sternum, base des cuisses et des pièces vulvaires dans la femelle, rouges; les segments ventraux lisérés de rougeâtre. Long. 1,013 (Amyot & Serville 1843).

Head black, maxillary plates and narrowly between eyes, red. Pronotum black, posteriorly red. Tegmen, small area against the costal margin anteriorly and two transverse fasciae, red; remainder black. Abdomen ventral surface red. Length ♂ 13, ♀ 14 mm (Evans 1966).

 

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 73

 

Diagnosis References

Amyot, C.J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Hémiptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Rue Hautefeuille 10 B13 676 pp. [555]

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

 

History of changes

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