Species Ipoides hackeri Evans, 1934

Ipoides hackeri Evans, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Ipoides hackeri Evans, nymph, ventral view of head showing pointed processes.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ipoides hackeri Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [156].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll.: H. Hacker), Brisbane, Queensland.

Introduction

This nondescript brown species is widely distributed across mainland Australia. The nymph bears two short sharp horns in the middle of its face plus additional short spikes. It is unknown if such features are found in the nymphs of other Ipoides species.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Dodonaea triquetra Wendland [SAPINDACEAE]).

Diagnosis

Head marked with an irregular pattern of yellow and dark brown, the maxillary plates usually pale, the vertex dark brown and the posterior margin of the crown dull greyish yellow. Pronotum and scutellum dull grey mottled with dark brown. Tegmen transparent, veins pale brown with white bars; some specimens have a trace of a narrow anterior fascia; appendix not continuing around the apex of the tegmen. Thorax ventral surface dark brown. Legs pale yellowish brown. Abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Male subgenital plates recurved at apices, parameres short, aedeagus simple with no spines or processes (Evans 1934).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [156]

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