Species Ipoella insignis (Distant, 1908)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymeloides insignis Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (F.P. Dodd, holotype by monotypy), Queensland
  Comment: Evans (1934) states that the "type" is a female.

 

Generic Combinations

• Ipoella insignis (Distant, 1908). —
  Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [159]

 

Introduction

This nicely marked tropical species was originally described from "Queensland" but the collector was F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991). The species has subsequently been collected at several locations in the wet tropics and it is almost certain that the type locality is in that region.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus tetradonta F.Mueller [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Vertex, pronotum, body beneath and legs ochraceous; scutellum with the basal area pale castaneous, the apical area ochraceous; tibiae piceous, Their basal areas pale ochraceous, tarsi black, apex of posterior tibiae and base of posterior tarsi pale ochraceous; tegmina black, the whole of claval area and base of costal margin ochraceous, two broad transverse greyish white fasciae, the first near middle, just encroaching on the clavus and with the veins concolorous, the second fascia before apical area, broader, a little less white and with the veins darker, and reaching claval apex, the black apical area with some small obscure ochraceous spots; scutellum strongly angularly transversely impressed before apical area; pronotum with a transverse impression near each eye; face laterally rather strongly angulate. Long. incl. tegm. 7 mill. (Distant 1908).

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [103–104]

 

General References

Monteith, G.B. 1991. The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. South Brisbane : Queensland Museum 1, 34 pp. [ISBN 0 7242 4481 6] [1]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
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