Species Ipoella wallacei Evans, 1973

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• Ipoella wallacei Evans, J.W. 1973. Some new genera and species of Cicadelloidea from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera). Pacific Insects 15(2): 185-197 [187].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: iv.1971, M. Wallace), Millstream area, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This species is described as being dimorphic in coloration by Evans (1973) but males and females in the J.W. Evans collection show considerable variation in these features without necessarily being correlated with sex. There are also specimens from Mt Isa in the Evans collection which may extend the range of the species to Queensland but, unfortunately, they are all females and confirmation of this range extension will require collection of males.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Coloration bright yellow with, or without, dark markings on the head and pronotum. Face of head: ♂ with a median irregularly shaped black marking bordered with ivory; vertex and genae black and brown; ♀ yellow, narrowly pale brown and yellow posteriorly. Pronotum ♂ grey or yellow mottled with pale ochreous brown or dark brown; ♀ similarly coloured to ♂ or entire pale yellow. Tegmen bright yellow, costal margin proximally brown. Thorax and femora sometimes, in part, black or brown. Length ♂ 4.8–6 mm, ♀ 6–6.5 mm (Evans 1973).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1973. Some new genera and species of Cicadelloidea from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera). Pacific Insects 15(2): 185-197 [187]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
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