Species Pauripo insularis Evans, 1934

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• Pauripo insularis Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [161].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
• Pauripo continentalis Evans, J.W. 1934. A revision of the Ipoinae (Homoptera: Eurymelidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 149-167 [163].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (coll.: A.H. Elston; no type depository was provided but other types from Evans (1934) were deposited in SAMA), Lucindale, South Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [58] (synonymy of P. continentalis)

 

Introduction

This very small brownish species is a mainly inland species distributed along the Murray Darling Basin from SE Queensland to SE South Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head chestnut brown suffused to a varying extent with dark brown or black; maxillary plates and lora sometimes paler than the rest of the head. Pronotum greyish brown mottled with dark brown. Scutellum black. Tegmen hyaline, mottled with dull brown especially in the claval area; veins brown or pink. The tegmen may be entirely hyaline except for the clavus and there may be traces of narrow anterior and posterior transverse fasciae (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 [58]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)