Species Ipo pellucida (Fabricius, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cicada pellucida Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Ryngota. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. 816 pp. [dated 1775] [686].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH sex, quantity unknown (Banks collection, may be holotype by monotypy), Australia.
• Ipo ambita 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 ♂, Queensland; BPBM 3 ♀, Bundaberg, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [100] (synonymy of I. ambita)

 

Generic Combinations

• Ipo pellucida (Fabricius, 1775). —
  Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [151]

 

Introduction

This is the largest species of the genus and widely distributed in the northern parts of the continent from Broome in Western Australia through the Northern Territory and Queensland down to the Macleay River on the north coast of New South Wales. Specimens at Howard Springs in the Northern Territory were being tended by green ants (Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

Diagnosis

Caput griseum, apice dilatatum, rotundatum, fronte plana, laevi. Thorax griseus, lineis duabus dorsalibus nigris. Scutellum acutum. Elytra grisea, fascia in medio lata, hyalina. Alae fuscae. Abdominis latera subtus dilatata, deflexa, fornicata. (Fabricius 1775).

Head and pronotum pale testaceous, the vertex and pronotum strongly clouded with blackish brown, without definite spots. Scutellum pale castaneous. Underside and the tergites pallid, pleural region more or less crimson. Tibiae, tarsi and apical parts of femora more or less blackish brown. Tegmina hyaline, basal fourth clouded with black, two narrow transverse stripes and apex of corium blackish-brown. Male: Valve in profile elongate, rounded apically. Frons clouded also with black. Clypeus black. Female: Last abdominal segment more or less straight medianly; valve long, depressed in a wedge shaped manner at the base. Length: (male) 7½; (female) 9½ mill; breadth across eyes 4¼–5 mill (Kirkaldy 1906, as Ipo ambita).

 

Diagnosis References

Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Ryngota. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. 816 pp. [dated 1775] [686]

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
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