Species Katipo rubrivenosa (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymeloides rubrivenosa Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [353].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905), Mittagong, New South Wales.
• Eurymeloides lentiginosus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [353].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vi.1904), Brisbane, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [90] (synonymy of E. lentiginosus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Katipo rubrivenosa (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [160]

 

Introduction

This is a reasonably common and distinctive species with the tegmen veins usually, but not always, coloured red. It is distributed around the southeastern regions of mainland Australia from SE Queensland to the SE corner of South Australia.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus amygdalina Labill., 1806 [MYRTACEAE] Black Peppermint; Eucalyptus blakelyi Maiden, 1917 [MYRTACEAE] Blakely's Red Gum).

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum and scute!lum pale castaneous, freckled with yellow. Clypeus, lorae and underside yellow; tibiae and tarsi more or less castaneous. Tegmina subhyaline yellowish, the cells more or less obscurely clouded with brownish, veins sanguineous, also most of clavus. Wings smoky, veins black. Fetnale: Last segment notched sublaterally; pygofers elongate. Length: 5¾ 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 [353]

 

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
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