Species Pogonoscopus myrmex China, 1924

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• Pogonoscopus myrmex China, W.E. 1924. A new genus of Bythoscopinae (Jassidae, Homoptera) from West Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 14: 529-531 [530].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3 ♀ (coll.: xi.1920, J. Clark, "attended by ants, Camponotus (Myrmophyma) testaceipes Smith" [= Camponotus terebrans (Lowne)]), Perth, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This large species is distributed in SW Western Australia, where it has been reported from nests of Camponotus terebrans (Lowne), and from SE South Australia and western Victoria. Day & Pullen (1999) provide information on the biology and behaviour of this species at Calperum, South Australia.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: inquiline (host(s): Camponotus gouldianus Forel, 1922 [FORMICIDAE]; Camponotus terebrans (Lowne, 1865) [FORMICIDAE]), phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

♀. Crown dark brown, paler along the basal margin; upper part of face between the eyes brownish black, covered with very short pale hairs, lower part below the antennae and ocelli ochraceous, the frons, clypeus and lorae covered with long and shaggy pale hairs. Pronotum brownish black, with a median longitudinal line on the basal two thirds and the basal margin rather widely yellowish brown covered with a very fine pale pubescence. Scutellum brownish black, paler towards the apex. Tegmina dark brown with two white fasciae - one large commencing in the middle of the clavus and widening towards the costal margin, another smaller extending across the outer anteapical cell to the costal margin on a level with the apex of the clavus - and a white spot at the base of the inner apical cell, the lower margin of the discal fascia and the upper margin of the apical fascia converging towards the costal border; appendix whitish hyaline. Wings hyaline with brown veins. Legs and abdomen below pale ochraceous with the pygofer and ovipositor brownish; posterior margin of last ventrite with a rather broad semicircular median incision, the remainder convexly sinuate on each side. Total length 9 mm; width across base of pronotum 3 mm (described from material preserved in spirit) (China 1924).

 

Diagnosis References

China, W.E. 1924. A new genus of Bythoscopinae (Jassidae, Homoptera) from West Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 14: 529-531 [530–531]

 

General References

Day, M.F. & Pullen, K.R. 1999. Leafhoppers in ant nests: Some aspects of the behaviour of Pogonoscopini (Hemiptera: Eurymelidae). Victorian Naturalist 116: 12-15 [13–14]

 

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
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