Species Hodoedocus bunyensis (Evans, 1966)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stenometopius bunyensis Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [150].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: v.1958, J.W. Evans), Bunya Mtns, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Hodoedocus bunyensis (Evans, 1966). —
  Webb, M.D. & Godoy, C. 1993. Review of the leafhopper tribe Scaphytopiini (Homoptera : Cicadellidae : Deltocephalinae) with a key to genera. Journal of Natural History 27: 423-427 [424]

 

Introduction

This strange little leafhopper has an enormous head for the size of the body. The head is flattened dorsally but deeply keeled ventrally so that the anterior view is T-shaped. It is not common in collections but specimens are known from near Gloucester Tops in New South Wales and from two locations in Queensland, Bunya Mountains (type locality) in SE Queensland and near Mt Molloy in North Queensland. These records indicate that the species may prefer higher altitudes.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face of head pale greyish brown; crown pale ivory with two pairs of stripes, the anterior pair brown and laterally branched; the posterior pair, which commence close to the hind ends of the former and are more laterally placed, orange, anteriorly curved outwards and posteriorly extending across the pronotum to the lateral apices of the scutellum. Tegmen pale hyaline brown with white, subapical markings and with dark brown markings at the apices of R1a and R1b; appendix wide. Length ♀ 5.4 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [150]

 

History of changes

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