Green Face Gum Hopper - Platybrachys decemmacula
Family Eurybrachyidae
This page contains pictures and information about Green Face Gum Hoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 20mm
- This planthopper can be found on leaf, stem or trunk of gum trees. It seems that they prefer smooth bark gum tree. They are common in Eucalyptus forests in Brisbane.
- Pictures taken in Wishart Bushland and Karawatha Forest. They are common in summer. They can be found even in mid winter.
- The Planthopper is brown with white patterns on wings There are the eyes pattern on wing tips. Its head is pale green in colour.
- Male, body length 20mm
- Female
- From the white waxy look on its abdomen tip, we can tell the above planthopper is a matured female. Females lay eggs on tree trunks or leaves. The eggs are covered with a white waxy secretion produced by the ovipositing female.
- We found this planthopper once on Scribbles Bark Gum Tree trunk during mid summer in Karawatha Forest. We believe this is the Platybrachys decemmacula although its wing patterns are slightly different and the head is pale brown in colour.
- Later we found another planthopper with the same wing patterns as the above, but with pale green head.
- This specimen was found on ground sitting on the fallen tree barks.
- Reference and Link:
- 1. Platybrachys decemmacula - Fletcher, M.J. and Larivière, M.-C. (2001 and updates).
- 2. Platybrachys decemmacula - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage.
