1. PaDIL Species Factsheet

Scientific Name: australis (Walker, 1851) (: )

Common Name Passionvine Hopper Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141068

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2.1. Details Specimen Contact: MAF Health & Environment Laboratory - [email protected] Author: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory Citation: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory (2011) Passionvine Hopper(Scolypopa australis) Updated on 5/1/2014 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0)

2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141068

2.3. Facets Commodity Overview: Horticulture Commodity Type: Cucurbitaceous produce Groups: Bugs Status: NZ - Exotic Pest Status: 0 Unknown Distribution: 0 Unknown Host Family: 0 Unknown

2.4. Other Names Flatoides australis (Walker, 1858) Homoptera Pochazia australis Walker, 1851 Scolypopa urbana Stål, 1859

2.5. Diagnostic Notes **Adult**

Body brown, fore wings hyaline with wing margins and veins brown. Length of body 4.8-5.3 mm (males) and 5.9-6.2 mm (females). Head. Disc of postclypeus with three longitudinal carinae extending from just anterior to junction of postclypeus and vertex to anteclypeus. Hind tibiae with two black-tipped spines on anterolateral angle, its apex with ventral row of six black-tipped spines in males and six to seven black-tipped spines in females. **Male**: Parameres extended dorsally at posterior end. Anal segment overlapping incurved tips of parameres dorsally. **Female**: Third ovipositor valves large, spines on internal surfaces and teeth along posteroventral margins. Ventral surface and apex of first valves covered with recurved teeth. Second valves lying within first, narrow blades, without teeth.

**Egg**

Length 0.77-0.87 mm, maximum width 0.36-0.38 mm. Dorsal surface slightly more convex than ventral. Microphylar cap, at anterior pole, a mushroom-shaped projection.

**Nymphs**

**First instar**: Hind tibiae without black-tipped spines on shaft but with four at apex; hind tarsi with four black- tipped spines at apex of proximal segment; abdominal pit configuration 2-2; body less than 1 mm long.

**Second instar**: Hind tibiae with one black-tipped spine on shaft and five at apex; hind tarsi with five black- tipped spines at apex of proximal segment; abdominal pit configuration 2-3; body more than 1.0 mm .

**Third instar**: Hind tibiae with three black-tipped spines on shaft and six spines at apex; abdominal pit configuration 3-4; body more than 1.8 mm long.

**Fourth instar**: Fore wing-pads overlapping front of metanotum only; lateral mesonotum less than 1.0 mm long; abdominal pit configuration 4-5, with two pits on each side of sternite.

**Fifth instar**: Fore wing-pads reaching at least to apex of hind wing-pads; lateral mesonotum more than 1.0 mm long; abdominal pit configuration 5-6, with four pits on each side of sternite 7.

**References**

- Fletcher, M.J. (1979). The external morphology of Scolypopa australis (Walker) (Homoptera: Ricaniidae). _Journal of the Australian Entomological Society_, 18: 157-168.

2.6. References - Fletcher, M.J. (1979). The external morphology of Scolypopa australis (Walker) (Homoptera: Ricaniidae). _Journal of the Australian Entomological Society_, 18: 157-168. 3. Diagnostic Images

HEM47 HEM47 Dorsal - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Headfront - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF

HEM47 HEM47 Headside - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Lateral - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF

HEM47 HEM47 Pronotum - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Wing - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF

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