Gumtree hopper at Higgins, ACT
Identification history
| Eurymeloides pulchra | 18 Jan 2017 | KimPullen | ||
| Eurymeloides pulchra | 15 Jan 2017 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
Quite a few groupings on this tree. What is the symbiosis between these and the ants? I saw very young nymphs swarmed with ants, then as they grew the ants were still present as well as with the adult.
2 comments
KimPullen
wrote:
22 Feb 2017
The bugs suck sap from the stems and their waste secretion from the other end is lapped up by the ants, which protect the bugs.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.029044-35.236797
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 15 Jan 2017 11:01 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Leafhoppers & planthoppers (Hemiptera, several families) AlisonMilton
Species information
- Eurymeloides pulchra Scientific name
- Gumtree hopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 817m Recorded at altitude
- 202 images trained Machine learning
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