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Family
Cicadllidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Black Flat-head Leafhoppers
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length female 20mm, males 15mm
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- Black Flat-head Leafhopper can be found on smooth bark gum tree trunk from late winter to late summer in
Brisbane Eucalyptus forest. Their adults are
winged and dark brown in colour. Their larvae are very flattened. They are all
living on gum tree trunk and
mimic the tree bark.
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 - Female
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 - Female flat head close-up
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 - Male
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- The male and female look different. We found the male is common, only saw
the female once.
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- They usually found resting or feeding on the trunk of smooth-barked gum trees where remnants of old bark
provide shelter when necessary. They are highly variable in colour, from
dark brown to pale brown.
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  - Nymph, body length 20mm
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- This nymph was almost invisible on the gum tree trunk in Cotton Hill
during mid summer. When we move closer to it, it ran quickly around the tree
trunk. Its body was extremely flat and make no shadow at all.
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  - Nymph, body length 15mm
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- On late August we found the three males and a female Black Flat-head
Leafhoppers on a large gum tree trunk. When we taking photos, those males
slowing walk away. The female did not move even disturbed. On the other side
of the tree trunk, we found a nymph.
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- Reference and links:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 469-470.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p165.
- 3. Stenocotis
depressa
- Fletcher, M.J. and Larivière, M.-C. (2001 and updates).
- 4. Stenocotis
depressa - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of
the Environment and Heritage.
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