Species Ipo aegrota Kirkaldy, 1906
Ipo aegrota Kirkaldy, adult.
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Species Ipo aegrota Kirkaldy, 1906
Compiler and date details
23 August 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Ipo aegrota Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [466].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.
Introduction
Found in North Queensland and the northern parts of the Northern Territory, this species has been collected from Melaleuca (Myrtaceae).
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
About the same size as I. honiala [=Ipoides honiala (Kirkaldy)], but the eyes are larger and more prominent, especially laterally; tegmina more narrowed apically; lorae not so rounded exteriorly, little wider than the clypeus. Pale testaceous; vertex, pronotum and scutellum more or less clouded with brownish, no definite markings. Tegmina hyaline, more or less tinged with yellowish, more or less obscurely clouded with brownish and with an ill-defined whitish fascia near the base. Length: 6 mill. (Kirkaldy 1906).
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 [466]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 02-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |