Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Mesohomotoma hibisci (Froggatt, 1901)

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Species Mesohomotoma hibisci (Froggatt, 1901)

  • Tyora hibisci Froggatt, W.W. 1901. Australian Psyllidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26: 242-298 (+ 3) [287].
    Type data:
     
    Syntype(s) ANIC ♂ ♀ (dry and slide), Brisbane, QLD; NMV, Brisbane, QLD; SAMA, Brisbane, QLD.

 

Distribution

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales
    • Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: free-living, sap-sucker (associated flora: Hibiscus tiliaceus L. [MALVACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

In colonies.

 

General References

Crawford, D.L. 1920. The Psyllidae of Borneo. Philippine Journal of Science 17: 353-359 [356]

Enderlein, G. 1910. Hemiptera. 8. Psyllidae. pp. 137-144 in Sjöstedt, Y. (ed.) Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Masaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905–1906 12 Stockholm [138] (in Udamostigma)

Hollis, D. 1987. A review of the Malvales-feeding psyllid family Carsidaridae (Homoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 56: 87-127 [107]