Species Myerslopella taylori Evans, 1977

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• Myerslopella taylori Evans, J.W. 1977. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 31(3): 83-129 [101].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (coll.: 20.vi.1971, R.W. Taylor & J. Feehan, 1060 m; extracted from forest floor litter by G.B. Monteith, Berlesate ANIC 318), Mt Lewis, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species has a reasonably wide distribution within the wet tropics of North Queensland from Isley Hills near Cairns to the Mossman area. It was presumably named in honour of Dr R.W. Taylor who collected the type series at Mt Lewis.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: litter, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration shining brown. Crown of head extensive, approximately rectangular in shape. Tegminal lobes pad-like, heavily pitted. Legs with two tarsal segments. Abdominal crests with white hairs and papillae and small white processes. Length ♀ 1.8 mm (Evans 1977).

As in Myserslopella monteithi but with prominent "paranotal" lobes projecting above eyes in lateral aspect and aedeagus evenly curved throughout length. Length ♂ 1.9–2.6 mm, ♀ 1.8–2.4 mm. The holotype is only 1.8 mm long, other females being at least 2.4 mm long, including the second specimen taken at the same time as the holotype (Hamilton 1999)

 

ID Keys

Hamilton 1999: 217

 

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 [101–102]

Hamilton, K.G.A. 1999. The ground-dwelling leafhoppers Myerslopiidae, new family, and Sagmatiini, new tribe (Homoptera : Membracoidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13(2): 207-235 [222–223]

 

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)