Species Gelastopsis mulliganensis Constant, 2005

Gelastopsis mulliganensis Constant, paratype male

© Copyright J. Constant, RBINS, Belgium

Gelastopsis mulliganensis Constant, face of paratype male

© Copyright J. Constant, RBINS, Belgium

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• Gelastopsis mulliganensis Constant, J. 2005. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (IV). The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 75: 57-69 [64].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll: 15-19.iv.1985, K.H. Halfpapp, 700m), Mt Mulligan plateau, N. Queensland.
  Paratype(s) QM ♂ (coll: 15-19.iv.1985, K.H. Halfpapp, 700m), Mt Mulligan plateau, N. Queensland.

Introduction

This species is only known from the type series, two males from Mt Mulligan in North Queensland. As with other species of the genus, the colouration of the face may mimic the face of a jumping spider (family Salticidae).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Immediately recognised by the narrow hind wings with anal area obsolete and the black zone of the frons not being separated into two patches. (Constant 2005)

ID Keys

Constant 2005: 66

Diagnosis References

Constant, J. 2005. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (IV). The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 75: 57-69 [65]

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