Species Ipo minor Evans, 1969

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• Ipo minor Evans, J.W. 1969. Notes on the Eurymelidae (Homoptera; Cicadelloidea) and some new species from Eastern and Western Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 81(4): 51-55 [54].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: v.1966, K. Moore), Charters Towers, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This very small species is only known from Charters Towers in the Einasleigh uplands of North Queensland. Six specimens matching the type data are present in the J.W. Evans collection and may be considered as additional paratypes. All known specimens were collected from Melaleuca (Myrtaceae).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Melaleuca sp. [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

General coloration pale brown or pale pinkish brown. Head, pronotum and scutellum pale mottled brown. Tegmen either concolorous with the head and thorax, or pale brown with a bold white, followed by a brown, marking against the costal margin and extending as far as vein Cu1. Male genitalia with a transverse band on the subgenital plates and apically club shaped parameres. Length ♂ 4.3 mm, ♀ 4.4 mm. (Evans 1969).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1969. Notes on the Eurymelidae (Homoptera; Cicadelloidea) and some new species from Eastern and Western Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 81(4): 51-55 [54]

 

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