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
Lophopid Planthoppers - Family Lophopidae
Order Hemiptera
- This page contains pictures and information about Lophopid Planthoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- The adults in this family have elongated transparent fore wings. This is a small hopper family. All of them jump, so is their common name planthoppers.
- Palm Planthopper
- Magia subocellata, body length 15mm
- We found this planthopper once in Brisbane Botanic Garden on March 2009. It was resting on palm leaves.
- Palm Planthopper nymph
- ? Magia subocellata, body length 10mm, not include tails.
- We found this planthopper nymph in Brisbane Botanic Garden on Nov 2002. Its double long tails tell us that it is very close to family Eurybrachyidae. We think this could be the nymph in the Flatidae Family. Dr Murray Fletcher sent us email suggested that this should in family Lophopidae, probably Magia subocellata.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 479.
- 2. Zophiuma lobulata Ghauri (Lophopidae) - Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, NSW Department of Primary Industries, 2006.
- 3. Family Lophopidae, Lophopid planthoppers - 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).
- 4. Species Magia subocellata Distant, 1907 - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 479.
