Common Spittlebug
Machaerotida
Ledrinae
TheWorld'sLargestLeafhopper
BlackFlat-headLeafhopper
White-dotedBrownLeafhopper
Tartessinae
Yellow-headedLeafhopper
Brown Leafhopper1
Eurymelinae
Common Jassid
Punctata Gum-treehopper
Penthimiinae
Membracidae
Lantana Treehopper
Banksia Treehopper
Green Horned Treehopper
AcaciaHornedTreehopper
Tri-horned Treehopper
Punctata Gum Leafhopper - Eurymeloides punctata
Family Cicadellidae, Eurymelinae, Eurymelini
- This page contains pictures and information about Punctata Gum-treehoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Adult body length 8mm
- This Gum-treehopper was found during early summer in Karawatha Forest. Many of them were found on a small gum tree. Adults were black in colour with white lines on wings. Their eyes were orange in colour.
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- The nymph is also with bright orange colour patterns. Different stages instars can be found grouped together and feeding on new shots of the gun tree. Eurymelinae nymphs cannot jump. They avoid predators by running around the twig or branch. The nymphs always live in group.
- They are quite common in Brisbane eucalypts forests.
- They are attended by different species of ants. Those ants around them are 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.
- Adult has orange eyes and powder green abdomen.
The Host Plant
- Gum tree
- Eucalyptus sp., family Myrtaceae
- Reference:
- 1. Eurymeloides punctata (Signoret) - Fletcher, M.J. and Larivière, M.-C. (2001 and updates).
- 2. Species Eurymeloides punctata (Signoret, 1850) - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.
