- This page contains pictures and information about Brown Gum-leafhoppers in
tribe Ipoini that we found in the Brisbane area,
Queensland, Australia.
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 - Brown Gum-leafhoppers attended by ants
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- Ipoini Gum-leafhoppers are relatively small in size. They are usually dull
brown in colour with mottled patterns. They mostly feed on eucalypts but some
feed on other native plants.
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- Mottled-brown Leafhopper
 - Bakeriana rubra, body length 5mm
- The Mottled-brown Leafhoppers are dark brown in colour mottled with
reddish-brown. Pictures were taken in Karawatha Forest on Dec 2007. Check this page
for more update information.
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- Yellow-brown Leafhopper
 - Ipoella brunneus, body length 5mm
- Picture taken in Karawatha Forest during mid summer. Check this page
for more updated information.
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- She-oak Leafhopper I
 - Ipoides honiala, body length 5mm
- Picture were taken in Sunnybank near Bulimba Creek on Nov 2007. The adults
and nymphs look like the Gum-treehopper of Eurymelinae. However, they were not
found on eucalypts but on Casuarina She-oak. Check this page
for more information.
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- She-oak Leafhopper II
  - Ipoides loranthae, body length 5mm
- We found this Leafhopper in Boondall Wetland on Nov 2009. Please check
this page for more information.
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- Paperbark Leafhopper
 - Ipo conferta, body length 5mm
- The treehoppers are black and white in colours. Its patterns make it well camouflaged
among those attending ants. We found this group of leafhoppers on Paperbark
tree Melaleuca quinquenervia in Karawatha Forest Lagoon Track during
Apr 2009. Please visit this page for
more information.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 473.
- 2. Forest
Health Sheet Leafhoppers - By Charlma Phillips, Forest Health Scientist,
ForestrySA , Revised June 1992.
- 3. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadelloidea and Cercopoidea) - J W Evans, Australian Museum,
1966, p29.
- 4. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
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