Species Ipoella colmani Evans, 1966

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• Ipoella colmani Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [44].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: xii.1958, P. Colman), Dungog, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

This is a very distinctive species with a rich dark brown tegmen bearing a narrow curved pale fascia giving a superficial appearance of Eurymeloides bicincta (Erichson) (Eurymelini). It is presumably named after Phil Colman, the collector of the type series. Phil was an avid collector of insects although working as assistant curator in the Malacology Department of the Australian Museum.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW North Coast (NNC)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

A very distinctive species, eurymeline in appearance. Head, maxillary plates and lora externally ivory; remainder dark purplish brown, excepting around and below the ocelli, brown. Pronotum anteriorly concolorous with head; hind margin broadly white; tegmen dark reddish brown to black, except for a narrow anterior oblique white fascia, a hyaline area close to the costal margin and a smaller hyaline area at apex of claval suture. Length ♂ 5.5, ♀ 6 mm (Evans 1966, corrected)

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [44]

 

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)