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Family Cicadellidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Brown Leafhoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 15mm
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- This Leafhopper is common on young tree stems in Brisbane Eucalyptus
forest. They are attended by different species of ants.
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- The ants come for their honey dew. The treehoppers suck the plant juice.
Within the juice, there are water and sugar more than the leafhoppers need.
They are excreted as honeydew.
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 - Leafhopper nymphs, body length 8mm
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- The body colours of the Brown Leafhopper nymphs are quite different from
their adults. Their colours are even different in different instars stages.
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- From its wing buds, we believed this was a last instars leafhopper. Its body
was black in colour, with a wide yellow line on its back and white spots under
eyes and abdomen. Pictures were taken in Karawatha Forest during early summer.
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- Those young nymphs were found on the same small tree. Their body colour were quite
different with the adults..
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- There was one dry curl leaf on the plant. We opened the leaf (above 2nd
pictures) and found many leafhopper empty shells on the leaf. We believed this could be the secret place
that those leafhoppers do the moulting.
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The Host Plant
- Smudgee
 - Angophora woodsiana, family Myrtaceae
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- The tree with fine shortly fibrous "peppermint" bark. It has
opposite leaves which distinguish it from Eucalyptus species. This
tree is common in Brisbane Eucalyptus Forest.
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- Reference:
- 1. Alotartessus iambe
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Fletcher, M.J. and Larivière, M.-C. (2001 and updates).
- 2. Alotartessus iambe
- Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and
Heritage.
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