Species Iposa fusca (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anipo fusca Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [143].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Perth, Western Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Ipoella fusca (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [44]
• Iposa fusca (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [87]

 

Introduction

This tiny species was said, by Evans (1977), to be confined to Western Australia although there are specimens in the J.W. Evans collection from both Charters Towers in Queensland and Darwin, Northern Territory, which presumably were identified as I. fusca by Evans himself.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface with anteclypeus, lora and maxillary plates pale yellowish brown with a median chestnut brown longitudinal stripe; vertex anteriorly dark brown, posteriorly pale brown. Crown of even width throughout. Pronotum and scutellum pale brown. Tegmen colourless hyaline, clavus pale hyaline brown, veins with brown and white markings. Thorax ventral surface black. Hind tibia with a few spines in addition to a single spur. Abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Length 3.5 mm (Evans 1942).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1942. New leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 143-163 [143–144]

 

General References

Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [87]

 

History of changes

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