Species Ipoides melaleucae Evans, 1947

Ipoides melaleucae Evans, adult.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Ipoides melaleucae Evans, J.W. 1947. Some new eurymelids from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 71(2): 225-227 [226].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: v.1945, D.C. Swan), Sogeri, Papua New Guinea.

Introduction

This species is distributed across the top end of Australia from Western Australia to Queensland. It has been collected on Melaleuca and is a potential biocontrol agent for species of this genus which are considered weeds overseas.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Melaleuca viridiflora Sol. ex Gaertn. [MYRTACEAE] Broad leaved Paperbark).

Diagnosis

Maxillary plates greyish, the rest of the face pale greyish brown evenly mottled with dark brown. Crown, pronotum and scutellum greyish, sparsely mottled with brown. Tegmen very pale hyaline brown; veins brown with white bars. Legs, femora dark brown, tibiae pale brown. Length 5 mm (Evans 1947).

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1947. Some new eurymelids from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 71(2): 225-227 [226]

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