Species Ipoides honiala (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ipo honiala Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [466].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland.
• Ipoides casurinae Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [157].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: J.W. Evans), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
• Ipoides fasciata 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.: i.1936, R.E. Turner), Spargoville, 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] (provide information on R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [37] (synonymy of I. casurinae and I. fasciata)

 

Generic Combinations

• Ipoides honiala (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [37]

 

Introduction

This species is widely distributed across the Australian mainland with several specimens having been collected from Casuarinaceae. One specimen in the J.W. Evans collection from the Swan River, Western Australia, is labelled as having been found in the nest of iridomyrmex conifer Forel (Formicidae). While most eurymelines are attended by ants, living in ants' nests is unusual except for the members of the Pogonoscopini.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Coolgardie (COO), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Casuarina cunninghamiana Miquel [CASUARINACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Smaller than I. conferta [=Ipo conferta], the head and eyes only slightly wider than pronotum; tegmina narrow and not so rounded subcostally. venation more irregular. Frons, etc., pallid, median part of the former clouded with blackish brown, lorae and clypeus each with a dark median mark, and the genae smudged with black. Tegmina brownish hyaline, more or less colourless apically; there is a curved whitish fascia on the basal half from basal angle to nearly half the length of the subcosta, the curve not nearly touching the length of the subcosta, the curve not nearly touching the commissure; veins partly whitish. Lorae each about twice as wide as the clypeus and well rounded exterolaterally. Genital segments on the plan of I. conferta Length: 5½–5 3/4 mill. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [466]

 

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
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED