Species Eurypella tasmaniensis (Evans, 1947)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bakeriola tasmaniensis 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 [227].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: iv.1939, J.W. Evans), Risdon, Tasmania.

 

Generic Combinations

• Eurypella tasmaniensis (Evans, 1947). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [58]

 

Introduction

This small brown species is distributed in the SE of Austraila, including Tasmania.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face black sparsely mottled with brown but for the outer margins of the maxillary plates, which are white, and the lora, which are cream partially suffused with pale brown. Crown of head and pronotum pale brown mottled with dark brown. Scutellum dark brown. Tegmen with clavus concolourous with the pronotum, the remainder hyaline brown with circular and irregularly shaped colourless areas. Legs dark brown but for the coxae, the tarsi and both ends of the tibiae and femora which are pale brown (Evans 1947).

 

Diagnosis References

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 [227]

 

History of changes

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