Species Malipo speciosa (Evans, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: i.1936, R.E. Turner), Dedari, Western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120] (details of R.E. Turner's collecting sites in Australia).

 

Generic Combinations

• Malipo speciosa (Evans, 1942). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [54]

 

Introduction

This distinctively marked species has only been found in drier inland areas of SW Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Mallee (MAL)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head ventral surface white with pale brown markings on the anteclypeus, lora, maxillary plates and frontoclypeus anteriorly and black markings on the vertex; eyes bright red. Pronotum grey mottled with very dark brown and with a broad median longitudinal white stripe. Scutellum chestnut brown with pale brown markings, laterally pale brown. Tegmen whitish hyaline with dark brown markings and a broad white fascia extending from the costal to the claval border. Thorax ventral surface with white and brown markings. Legs, tibiae very dark brown with white and dark brown markings. Abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Length 6 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 [144–145]

 

History of changes

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05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)