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Family Cicadellidae, Eurymelinae, Eurymelini
- This page contains pictures and information about Two-lined Gum-leafhoppers
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Adult body length 8mm
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- This Gum-leafhopper is usually found during early summer in Eucalypt
forest. Many of them are found on young gumtrees.
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Adults were black in
colour with two narrow white lines on wings. Head is largely brown or black.
The
eyes are orange in colour. Pronotum is black, dark brown or orange-brown in
colours usually with the white hind margin. Scutellum is either black or
orange-brown. Wing-covers are black and each with two narrow white lines.
The front line link from scutellum to mid wing edge. The hind line run across wings. On
hind legs there are three large and two small spurs on one edge and two on
another. The abdomen is red in colour.
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- Adults have orange eyes and red abdomen. Nymphs are in bright brown-orange colours. Different stages instars can be found grouped
together feeding on young stems of gum trees.
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- They are attended by different species of ants.
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- Those ants around them come for their excretion of 'honey-dew', which is
the excess sugar that the treehoppers do not need. The presence of ants
discourage predators, this becomes a kind of protection from the ants.
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- In the above first picture, there are the white substance attached on the stem.
We are not sure if this is the eggs laid by the Gum-leafhopper.
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- They are quite common in Brisbane eucalypts forests.
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The Host Plant
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- ? sp., family Myrtaceae
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- Reference:
- 1. Eurymeloides bicincta
- Fletcher, M.J. and Larivière, M.-C. (2001 and updates).
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p164.
- 3. Species
Eurymeloides bicincta (Erichson, 1842) -
Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.
- 4. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Cicadelloidea and Cercopoidea) - J W Evans, Australian Museum,
1966, p62.
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