Cicadulina bimaculata (Evans)
Caution
Many of the insects depicted on these pages are outwardly similar and you should not use photographs as the sole means of identification. These pages form part of a scientific key which will assist a trained entomologist to identify the species accurately.
Cicadulina bimaculata (Evans 1940)
Common Name: the maize leafhopper
Subfamily/Tribe: Deltocephalinae: Macrostelini
Distribution: Eastern half of Qld, NE of NSW
Economic Status: It was described from
lucerne by Evans (1940) but is probably
a grass feeder as are its congeners. It is recorded as the vector of cereal
chlorotic mottle rhabdovirus (Brunt
et
al. 1990) and the phytoplasma maize wallaby ear in Australia (Schindler
1942) and maize streak geminivirus overseas (Brunt
et al. 1990).
