Species Ipoella douglasi Evans, 1977
Ipoella douglasi Evans, adult.
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Species Ipoella douglasi Evans, 1977
Compiler and date details
24 August 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Ipoella douglasi Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [87].
Type data:
Holotype WAM ♂ (coll.: i.1975, A. Douglas), Three Rivers Station, Western Australia.
Introduction
A very pale species known only from the type locality in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Gascoyne (GAS)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Overall coloration pale brownish yellow. Resembling other species in the genus Ipoella in cephalic, tibial and general male genitalia characteristics and differing from them in the shape of the aedeagus, in particular in having a long, acute proximoventral extension. Length ♂ 4.8 mm, ♀ 5.2 mm (Evans 1977).
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [87]
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) |