Platybrachys decemmacula
Green-faced gum hopper at Ainslie, ACT
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| Platybrachys decemmacula | KimPullen | 1 Nov 2018 | |
| Platybrachys vidula | jb2602 | 29 Oct 2018 |
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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.
3 comments
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
https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Species/21591
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.
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.151991-35.259118
- Places Ainslie, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 29 Oct 2018 12:48 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
Collections
- jb2602 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Platybrachys decemmacula Leafhoppers & planthoppers (Hemiptera, several families) Insects
Species information
- Platybrachys decemmacula Scientific name
- Green-faced gum hopper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1034m Recorded at altitude
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