Species Myrmecophryne formiceticola Kirkaldy, 1906

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• Myrmecophryne formiceticola Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [462].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (x.1904, sandhills, in an ant's nest), Bundaberg, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This species has been collected in ants' nests and shows pallid colouring and reduced eyes normally associated with adaptation to underground living. It was originally known only from Bundaberg in SE Queensland but specimens are now known from Innisfail in the wet tropics of North Queensland and from Darwin, Northern Territory.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Darwin Coastal (DAC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

Nymph: root-feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Piceous; vertex with a short longitudinal line on each side close to the middle, a short transverse line nearer the lateral margins, about 3 specks near the anterior margin, testaceous. Pronotum with about 12 specks and scutellum with 4, testaceous. Tegmina subopaque piceous, with brownish testaceous subhyaline spots. Abdomen piceous, legs sordid testaceous. Male: Frons sordid testaceous. Female: Frons piceous variegated with testaceous. Length : (male) 2; (female) 2¼ 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 [462]

 

History of changes

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		22-Mar-2012	ADDED