Species Zygina ipoloa (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Erythroneura ipoloa Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [365].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii. 1904), Cairns, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Zygina ipoloa (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1232]

 

Introduction

This species in general appearance has similarities to certain species of Empoascanara Distant which also have a round black spot at the apex of the head surrounded by a faint "halo". The species is widespread in mainland Australia from both coastal and inland localities.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: parenchyma feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale yellowish cinerous, paler beneath; eyes, and a large spot on the anterior margin of vertex, black, the latter irregularly encircled by a faint brown halo; a transverse brown stripe, widening medianly, on the pronotum close to the posterior margin. Scutellum and rest of pronotum more or less sordid. Tegmina hyaline, costally smoky; wing veins smoky. Abdomen (except the pallid genital segments) more or less pale sordid brownish (♂) or brownish black (♀). Vertex roundly triangular, about same length as pronotum. Length: 2½ mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [365]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)