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
Two-lined Gum Leafhopper - Eurymeloides bicincta
Family Cicadellidae, Eurymelinae, Eurymelini
- This page contains pictures and information about Two-lined Gum-treehoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Adult body length 8mm
- This Leafhopper 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-treehopper.
- Adult has orange eyes and orange abdomen.
The Host Plant
- ? sp., family Myrtaceae
- 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.
