Platybrachys decemmacula

Green-faced gum hopper at Ainslie, ACT

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Identification history

	Platybrachys decemmacula	1 Nov 2018	KimPullen
	Platybrachys vidula	29 Oct 2018	jb2602

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Eye-patterned Gum Hopper http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_planthoppers/EyepatternHopper.htm Eye-patterned Gum Hoppers are brown in colour. The frons is greenish-brown. Abdomen is mostly black. All legs are brown. Forewings are reddish-brown with two black spots near the wing tip. Each black spot encloses with either two or three tiny white dots. The fore-wing tip margin is even in darker brown colour. Hind wings are smoky dark colour.

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michaelb wrote:

2 Nov 2018

Some of the Gum Hoppers ID'd as Platybrachys sp. look a lot like this one:
https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Species/21591

jb2602 wrote:

3 Nov 2018

Green Face Gum Hoppers are brown in colour. On the head there is the large and flat frons which is yellowish green to bright green. All legs are brown with three black spines on hind legs. Forewings are brown with white dotted marks. There are five dark blue spots along the outer edge of forewings, three on the fore border and two at the tip with the third smaller than the others. There are also a row of short parallel cross-veins along the fore border. Hind-wings are blackish in colour and paler near the wing base.

KimPullen wrote:

8 Nov 2018

John, I can't decide on this one. Further complicating the distinction between species is the evident sexual dimorphism, see http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/fulgor/eurybrachidae/platybra.htm . An upcoming (hopefully) taxonomic revision mentioned there might help resolve it. Kim.

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