Species Myerslopella miserabilis Hamilton, 1999
Compiler and date details
3 August 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Myerslopella miserabilis Hamilton, K.G.A. 1999. The ground-dwelling leafhoppers Myerslopiidae, new family, and Sagmatiini, new tribe (Homoptera : Membracoidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13(2): 207-235 [219].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: 23.ix.-7.x.1982, Monteith, Yeates & Thompson, rainforest pitfall traps, 680 m (ASL)), 3.5 km W Cape Tribulation (site 7), Queensland [16°05'S 145°27'E].
Introduction
Each species of Myerslopella has a discrete distribution within the wet tropics of North Queensland. This one is found in the Cape Tribulation area.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: litter, phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Crown narrower than pronotum and 50% longer, notched at meson; pronotal "paranotal" lobes present but lower than upper level of eyes; humeral angles of tegmina weak, tegmina flat on dorsum; tips of tegmina not produced; abdominal tubercles forming four rows, median pair approximate, lateral pair widely separated; abdomen strongly inflated with tubercles forming prominent crest in lateral aspect. Male connective triangular, aedeagus short, strongly curved at base, tip pointed, style tip blunt, twisted. Length ♂ 1.9–2.5 mm, ♀ 2.3–2.9 mm. (Hamilton 1999).
ID Keys
Hamilton 1999: 217
Diagnosis 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 [219–220]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 17-Aug-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |