Species Myrmecoscopus minutus Evans, 1966

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• Myrmecoscopus minutus Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [79].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM ♂ (coll.: 27.viii.1953, R.P. McMillan), Cannington, Western Australia [32°01'S 115°57'E].

 

Introduction

This species, which is unknown to the compiler, appears to be more recently adapted to living with ants based on its more typically eurymeline features. Evans (1966) reports observations of the species by the collector of the type series. The species is "nearly always found associated with ants belonging to the genus Camponotus. These ants build their nests under logs and stones and have tunnels with large entrance holes which are smooth and vertical. The leafhoppers 'walk around with a peculiar rolling motion and when escaping just fold their legs and tumble down the shaft'. He further reports that a fungal growth is frequently present in the parts of the ants' nests where pogonoscopids occur. Possibly this grows on the excreta of the insects" (Evans 1966).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: inquiline (host(s): Camponotus sp [FORMICIDAE]), phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

General coloration chocolate brown. Tegmen shining brown. Length ♂ 6, ♀ 7 mm; greatest width ♂ ♀, 1.8 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [79]

 

General References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [79]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019	CICADELLIDAE Latreille, 1825	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
05-Dec-2019		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED