Species Pauroeurymela parva Evans, 1933
Pauroeurymela parva Evans, adult.
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Species Pauroeurymela parva Evans, 1933
Compiler and date details
12 August 2011 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Pauroeurymela parva Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [79].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: 3.x.1926), Katoomba, New South Wales.
Introduction
Despite its name, this species is much the same size as its congener, P. amplicincta (Walker) and distributed across the same parts of eastern New South Wales. The anterior fascia tends to be finer in this species and the two can be distinguished by examination of the male genitalia.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: gregarious, myrmecophilous, phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Head black, eyes dull brown; the vertex seen from above is angular. pronotum black, the posterior margin very narrowly reddish. Scutellum black. Tegmen black with a narrow fulvous edge to the costal and claval margins; there are two pale yellowish brown fasciae, the anterior tranverse and wide, narrower at the costal than at the hind margin of the tegmen (when the tegmina are closed these two fasciae form a band right across the dorsal surface of the insect). Posterior fascia, a very small triangular pale area lying against the costal margin of the tegmen. Legs reddish but for the fore tibiae, fore tarsi, tarsi of the middle pair of legs and the distal tarsal segment of the hind legs, which are black. Abdomen ventral surface black. Male genitalia: aedeagus with no anterior ventral process developed but similar to that of the genotype in having a spine present on the posterior margin and the opening of the gonopore at the extremity of the aedeagus. Length 7–8 mm (Evans 1933).
Diagnosis References
Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [79–80]
History of changes
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| 05-Dec-2019 | 02-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |