Species Ipoella porriginosa (Signoret, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymela porriginosa Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [512].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW sex, quantity unknown, New Holland.
• Bythoscopus luridus Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [870].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex? (Mr Pamplin's collection), New South Wales.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [159] (synonymy of B. luridus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Anipo porriginosa (Signoret, 1850). —
  Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [159]
• Ipoella porriginosa (Signoret, 1850). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [43]

 

Introduction

This species is rather variable in colour and occurs mainly along the eastern seaboard of mainland Australia from SE Queensland to Victoria and is also known from Perth, Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, WA: New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

Diagnosis

Même forme que les précédentes [Eurymela trifasciata Signoret = Eurymeloides punctata (SIgnoret)] dont elle diffère entièrement pour les couleurs; elle est d'un jaune verdàtre livide, mêlée de nuance peu claire. Elytres d'un jaune verdàtre, avec des macules blanches dont la série supérieure forme une fascie; celles du sommet de l'élytre sont disséminées dans une portion plus brune. Abdomen jaune en dessous, brun en dessus avec les pattes entièrement jaunes, testacées, excepté les tarses qui sont bruns: le premier article des postérieures étant jaune comme dans toutes les espèces de ce genre. Long. 0,006-007. (Signoret 1850).

Rufo-ferrugineus, flavo guttatus; facies piceo bimaculata; scutellum piceum; pectus flavum, disco nigro; abdomen nigrum utrinque ferrugineum, subtus flavum; pedes fulvi, femoribus flavis; alae anticae luridae, albo guttatae; alae posticae cinereae. Reddish-ferruginous, with yellow dots: head extremely short, as broad as the chest, slightly rounded along the fore border, more convex behind; front transversely striated, a little longer on each side than in the middle, where its length is less than one-twelfth of its breadth; a pitchy mark on each side of the face, which is punctured, and another on each side of the epistoma: shield transversely striated; scutcheon finely punctured, mostly pitchy; breast yellow, with a black disk: abdomen black, ferruginous on each side, yellow beneath; legs tawny; thighs yellow; fore-wings lurid, with white marks, which are smallest and most numerous towards the tips: hind-wings gray. Length of the body 3¼ lines; of the wings 7½ lines (Walker 1851, of Bythoscopus luridus).

 

Diagnosis References

Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [512–513]

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [870]

 

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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