Species Ipo conferta Kirkaldy, 1906
Ipo conferta Kirkaldy, adult.
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Species Ipo conferta Kirkaldy, 1906
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23 August 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Ipo conferta Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [465].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: xi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: ix-xii.1904), Bundaberg, Queensland
Comment: type series contains both male and female syntypes and possibly also a nymph.
Introduction
This reasonably common and widespread species is larger than other species of Ipo except for I. pellucida. As with most of the species, it has been collected from Melaleuca (Myrtaceae).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Melaleuca sp. [MYRTACEAE]).
Diagnosis
Smaller than the type, tegmina not narrowed so suddenly apically, and the interior subapical cell very short. Pleural region not reddish. Frons, clypeus, etc., concolorous, pallid in both sexes; a narrow longitudinal pale line on head and pronotum. Tegmina dark, mottled with whitish, with a broad undulating discolorous band from nearly the middle of the subcosta to lateral margins of scutellum; exteroapical third hyaline, veins black. Scutellum with anterolateral angles broadly dark. Male and female: Valve rounder and shorter than in I. ambita [= I. pellucida (Fabricius)]. Length: 6ΒΌ 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 [465]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-Jun-2023 | MEMBRACOIDEA | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 10-May-2022 | CICADOMORPHA | 24-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 02-Jun-2021 | AUCHENORRHYNCHA | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Dec-2019 | CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Murray Fletcher |
| 05-Dec-2019 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
| 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED |