Species Interocrea regalis (Lallemand, 1927)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clovia regalis Lallemand, V. 1927. Descriptions de Cercopides nouveaux provenent de la collection du British Muséum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1927: 99-118 [104].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: v.1904, T.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Interocrea regalis (Lallemand, 1927). —
  Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2003. A review of the Australian aphrophorid spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42(1): 84-93 [87]

 

Introduction

Interocrea regalis is not well represented in collections and has only been recorded from Kuranda in far North Queensland. Nothing is known of its biology.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Length, 5.5 mm. A rugose, somewhat hairy insect with dull coloration. Crown brownish yellow with a transverse brown band between the eyes. Pronotum anteriorly brown, posteriorly yellowish-brown; brown area with a narrow yellow transverse marking; scutellum sordid yellow. Tegmen dull brown, yellowish basally, with numerous small raised brown spots. (Evans 1966, as Clovia regalis)

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [319]

 

History of changes

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