Species Ipoides loranthae Evans, 1939

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• Ipoides loranthae Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: D.C. Swan), Curnamona Station, South Australia.

 

Introduction

This species is associated with species of mistletoes (Loranthaceae) in inland parts of SE Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Amyema pendulum Sprengel [LORANTHACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Head; maxillary plates and lora whitish; anteclypeus and frontoclypeus medially black mottled with pale yellowish brown; vertex marked with a pattern of black, light and dark brown. Crown of head and pronotum concolorous with the vertex. Scutellum anterior angles black, the remainder black mottled with brown. Tegmen hyaline, veins black with white bars; claval area brown with two irregular white markings. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Length 5 mm (Evans 1939).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [48]

 

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