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| | Two-lined Gum Treehopper - Eurymeloides bicincta
Family Eurymelidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Two-lined Gum Treehoppers
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Adult body length 8mm
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- This Leafhopper was found during early summer in Karawatha Forest. Many of them were found on a small gum tree.
Adults were black in
colour with white lines on wings. Their eyes were orange in colour.
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- The nymph is also with bright orange colour
patterns.
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- Different stages instars can be found grouped
together and feeding on new shots of the gun tree.
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- They are attended by different species of ants.
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- Those ants around them are for their excretion of 'honey-dew', which is
the excess sugar that the treehoppers do not need. The presence of ants
discourage predators, this becomes a kind of protection from the ants.
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- In the above picture, there are the white substance attached on the stem.
We are not sure if this is the eggs laid by the hopper.
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The Host Plant
 - ? sp., family Myrtaceae
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- Reference:
- 1. Eurymeloides bicincta
- Fletcher, M.J. and Larivière, M.-C. (2001 and updates).
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus &
Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p164.
- 3. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 472-473.
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