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
- Body length 15mm
- Chewobrachys is the new genus of family Eurybrachyidae. This genus include two species, the C. sanguiflua and C. limbourgi, they are found in Eastern Australian. This C. sanguiflua species can be found in Brisbane.
- Jerôme Constant is revising the classification of family Eurybrachyidae. This new genus Chewobrachys is created in the process of reviewing the Australian genus Platybrachys. Jerôme kindly used our family name Chew and brachys (Greek = short, common ending of generic names in family Eurybrachyidae) to form the name of this new genus.
- In 2001 we first found this planthopper (in photo above) in Wishart Outlook. We did not see them again until Jerôme Constant in 2008 ask us if we can find them in Brisbane . They are not as common as the other planthopper species and they have very good camouflaged colour patterns. We did take a while to find them again.
- Following photos were taken on 30 March 2008 in Karawatha Forest near the hill top called Baileyana Outlook. When we found those planthoppers, they were hiding on a large Acacia tree trunk, all resting in the large cracks on the bark. They were well camouflaged and hard to be spotted.
Green and Red Wattle Hopper - Chewobrachys sanguiflua
(former Platybrachys sanguiflua)
Family Eurybrachyidae
This page contains pictures and information about Green and Red Wattle Hoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
Female
- They were resting on tree trunk about a meter from ground, all face downwards. After I took a few photos, all of them wake up (?) and turned around facing upwards. They then walked quickly up towards the trees tops. All of them have the green frons and pinky-red abdomen, they are the females.
Male
- The about picture shows the hopper hiding about 2 meter from ground on another Acacia tree trunk. This one had the patterns less contrast than the three mentioned above, and its frons was not green in colour. It is the male and less colourful.
- This one was found on another smaller Acacia tree near by. The tree was smaller and had no large cracks so the hopper could not hide. The hopper was sun-bathing on the tree trunk.
- Another hopper found on another Acacia tree near by.
- All those hoppers walked away from our disturbed. They jumped only when touched.
- Found one on Jun 2008 in Karawatha Forest Rocky Circuit.
- Found one again on Nov 2008 near Bulimba Creek in Wishart bushland.
Nymph
- On the same tree we found a hopper nymph, body length 5mm.
- The tree was sure the Acacia sp., with stringy type of bark like the gidgee, but not sure which spices. That tree was the largest and tallest Acacia in that area, was about 6-8 meters tall. Tree trunk diameter was about 20cm.
- In the small area near by there were 5-6 Acacia trees of the same species. I checked those trees as well and found three more hopper adults and one nymph.
- Reference:
- 1. Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XIII). The new Australian genus Chewobrachys (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) - JEROME CONSTANT, Zootaxa 1898: 41-54 (13 Oct. 2008).
- 2. Family Eurybrachyidae - Fletcher, M.J. and Larivière, M.-C. (2001 and updates).
- 3. Genus Platybrachys Stål sensu lato - By Murray J. Fletcher, 08 April 2007.
