Species Ipoella fulva Evans, 1942

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• Ipoella fulva Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [144].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: xi.1935, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Introduction

Unlike many other species originally collected at Dedari by R.E. Turner in 1936, this pale brown species has subsequently been collected again, at Yanchep in the Swan Valley.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface pale brownish yellow with a large dark brown T-shaped marking; eyes reddish brown. Pronotum grey mottled with dark brown. Scutellum brown. Tegmen pale colourless hyaline mottled with brown. Thorax ventral surface dark brown. Abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Length 5 mm (Evans 1942).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [144]

 

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)