Genus Ipo Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Ipo Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [464].

  Type species:

   Ipo ambita Kirkaldy, 1906 by original designation.

 

Introduction

An endemic genus of seven species, all stocky, broadly wedge-shaped insects mainly found in the tropical and subtropical parts of Australia. Most of the species have been collected from species of Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) which may be the natural host for species of Ipo.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Plains (GUP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Diagnosis

Distinguished from Idiocerus by the quite different venation, especially the constitution of the discoidal cells and the presence of 5 apicals; there are also transverse veinlets towards the apex of the subcostal (marginal) cell, and there are 2 transverse veins standing on the cubital. The antennal ridges also extend only about one-half of the distance from frons to eye, and are shallow. Very little of the vertex can be seen dorsally, and the eyes are prominent, not forming part of the curve of the head; the apical margin of the vertex is ventral and is emarginate roundly to admit the base of the diamond-shaped frons; ocelli placed a little laterally, right against the frons, close to the apical margin of the vertex. Frons with a very slight, ovate swelling in the center, from base to apex. Clypeus oblong, longer than wide, lorae rhomboid, about as wide or a little wider, each, than clypeus, slightly rounded posteriorly exterolaterally. Rostrum about twice as long as clypeus. Antennae socketted on a level with the posterior margin of the eyes, simple in both sexes. Vertex and pronotum transversely, finely, but a little irregularly, aciculate-punctate. Head and eyes distinctly wider than pronotum, the latter transverse, roundly declivous anteriorly, lateral margins obsolescent, anterior and posterior margins meeting acutely. Costal margin arched; clavus punctured. Membrane with an appendix. Wings with supernumerary cell. Posterior tibiae deeply grooved, with a row of about 7 strong setiferous spines (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. (2008) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Tribe Ipoini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/eurymelinae/ipo00.htm

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [464–465]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)