Species Nanipoides maculosa (Evans, 1939)

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Regional Maps

• Ipoides maculosa Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: iv.1938, D.C. Swan), Frome Downs Station, South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Nanipoides maculosa (Evans, 1939). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [47]

 

Introduction

This relatively large, dark coloured species is found through the Murray Darling basin and neighbouring areas of southeastern mainland Australia. It is not common in collections.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder (associated flora: Heterodendron oleifolium Desfontaines [SAPINDACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum and scutellum pale yellowish brown mottled with black or largely black; eyes dark red. Tegmen marked with a variable pattern of black and whitish hyaline; two transverse hyaline fasciae may be developed. Thorax and abdomen ventral surface pale brown. Legs black, the edges white or pale brown. Length 7 mm, head width 3 mm (Evans 1939).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1939. Some new Australian Leafhoppers (Homoptera: Jassoidea). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63(1): 44-50 [48]

 

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