Long-nosed Lantern Fly - Eurinopsyche obscurata

Family Fulgoridae, Subfamily Amyclinae

This page contains pictures and information about Long-nosed Lantern flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia. 

Body length 30mm 

 

This insect has the prolongation on the head. It is dark brown in colour with camouflaged bark patterns. The insect was found on gum tree trunk in Alexandra Hill during early summer. 

 

 

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We found this pale brown form in Karawatha Forest on Dec 2010. 

 

 

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Reference:

1. Genus Eurinopsyche Kirkaldy - Fletcher, M.J. (2009 and updates). Identification keys and checklists for the leafhoppers, planthoppers and their relatives occurring in Australia and neighbouring areas (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). 

2. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 476, Fig30.39B (Eurinopsyche arborea).

3. Species Eurinopsyche obscurata (Fabricius, 1775) - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.   

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