Genus Myerslopella Evans, 1977

Museums

Regional Maps

• Myerslopella Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [100].

  Type species:

   Myerslopella taylori Evans, 1977 by original designation.

 

Introduction

These minute flightless knobbly leafhoppers are all found in leaf litter in high altitude forests in the wet tropics of North Queensland. Hamilton (1999) redescribed the genus and added five new species to the single species previously described.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Minute cicadellids having the greater part of the external surface punctate and covered with small white hairs and papillae. On the face of the head the labium extends to between the middle and hind coxae and the parallel-sided anteclypeus is anteriorly depressed. The postclypeus and the frontal region are medially depressed. the maxillary plates are wide and the antennae, which have two large basal segments, are long. The laterally situated antennal ledges are in continuous alignment with the sides of the postclypeus. A pair of deep channels between the anterior margins of the eyes and the base of the maxillary plates extends from the antennal depressions to the sides of the head. The crown of the head, which is apically spatulate, is medially depressed. ocelli are lacking. The pronotum is medially elevated and laterally depressed and the lateral margins consist of a pair of small backwardly projecting lobes. The brachypterous tegmina are posteromedially depressed. The fore and middle tibiae have numerous small, stout spines; the hind femora lack apcial spines and the heavily spined hind tibiae have six spines in the row of strongest spines. The abdomen, which is globose, has a series of three pairs of prominent crests, the median pairs being situated on abdominal segments 2–5; the dorsolateral pairs on segments 2–4 and the lateral pairs on segment 2 and 3 (Evans 1977).

 

ID Keys

Hamilton 1999: 211

 

Diagnosis 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 [100–101]

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1999. The ground-dwelling leafhoppers Myerslopiidae, new family, and Sagmatiini, new tribe (Homoptera : Membracoidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13(2): 207-235 [211]

 

General References

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1999. The ground-dwelling leafhoppers Myerslopiidae, new family, and Sagmatiini, new tribe (Homoptera : Membracoidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13(2): 207-235 [216]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		17-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)