[4] Field observations in Bungendore, New South Wales, showed that E. distincta reproduces once a year in the austral spring, with a single breeding pair occupying a tree.

The females cut a slit lengthwise down a 1.5–3.8 cm diameter branch,[3] lay around 12 eggs, and cover securely with a "white frothy secretion".

[3] The vulnerable pronymph is transparent with red eyes, and transforms into the nymph before it finishes emerging from the bark (and egg).

[4] Eurymela distincta has been recorded from Sydney and Bombala, New South Wales, Nunawading, Victoria, and Hobart, Tasmania.

[3] The species was described in 1850 by French entomologist Victor Antoine Signoret, who described Eurymela vicina at the same time.

[7] In 1906, George Willis Kirkaldy described E. lubra from a specimen he collected in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, which he reported differed from E. distincta by virtue of its red abdomen.