Species Ipoides minor Evans, 1966

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• Ipoides minor Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: viii.1958, R.A. O'Brien), Innisfail, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This very small species is known from a series of specimens from Innisfail in the wet tropics of North Queensland. Evans (1973) also recorded it from Eramboe in Papua New Guinea. It is distinctive in its colouring.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration pale tortoise-shell. Head and pronotum dull ochre. Scutellum medially coffee brown, laterally and posteriorly black. Tegmen hyaline brown with or without a variable patter of dark brown and white. Length ♂ 4 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [39]

 

General References

Evans, J.W. 1973. Some new genera and species of Cicadelloidea from Australia and New Guinea (Homoptera). Pacific Insects 15(2): 185-197 [186]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)