Species Ipo sordida Evans, 1934
Compiler and date details
24 August 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Ipo sordida Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [154].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll.: A.M. Lea), Thursday Island, Queensland.
Introduction
This species is unknown to the compiler. It is only known from the type locality on Thursday Island in far north Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head pale chestnut brown and very dark brown or black, the areas covered by the two colours varying in extent. The head is covered with fine short hairs. Pronotum grey, densely mottled with dull brown. Scutellum chestnut brown or very dark brown. Tegmen largely hyaline, the anterior costal and claval areas punctate; an indistinct broad anterior transverse whitish fascia, veins brown. the whole tegmen is mottled with dull brown, especially in the neighbourhood of the veins, which are faintly and irregularly barred with white. Thorax ventral surface dark brown. Legs, femora very dark brown with pale areas; tibiae pale brown. Abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Male genitalia similar in shape to those of I. honiala [=Ipoides honiala (Kirkaldy)], the recurved spines at the apex of the aedeagus being smaller in this species. Length 5 mm. Head width 2.5 mm (Evans 1934).
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [154]
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) |