Species Ipo pompais Kirkaldy, 1907

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• Ipo pompais Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [35].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂, quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904, Perkins), Nelson (=Gordonvale), Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species is only known from North Queensland. The specimen illustrated here is from Coen on Cape York Peninsula and is in the J.W. Evans collection. It is more evenly yellow brown in colour than the colour given in the original description.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Form of I. conferta but smaller and paler. Pale testaceous, strongly, minutely and closely spotted with brownish fuscous; frons (and usually a thin longitudinal line from frons to base of pronotum ) pale testaceous. Scutellum pale ferruginous, anterolateral angles dark fuscous. Tegmina hyaline tinged with cinereous, suffused and mottled with light and dark fuscous; an undulating transverse narrow whitish stripe near the middle; extero-apical part of tegmina almost immaculate, one or two whitish spots near the commissure. Beneath brownish testaceous. Head nearly truncate anteriorly. Eyes projecting laterally distinctly farther than the pronotum. Male : last segment roundly emarginate, pygophor subconstricted near the base. Length 5 mill., breadth 2½ mill. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [35]

 

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)