Species Goddefroyinella neglecta (Buckton, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oxyrhachis neglectus Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [224].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown, South Australia.
• Goddefroyinella indicans Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [22].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Gayndah, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Broomfield, P.S. 1971. A catalogue of the Membracid types (Homoptera : Membracidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 25: 327-386 [355].
• Sextius projectus Funkhouser, W.D. 1927. New Australian Membracidae (Homoptera). Records of the Australian Museum 15(5): 305-312 [312].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀, King George Sound, Western Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [294] (synonymy of G. indicans, S. projectus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Xiphistes neglecta (Buckton, 1903). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. & Wade, V. 1965. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Membracoidea. Section 1. Raleigh, North Carolina : North Carolina State University pp. 1-743. [1408]
• Goddefroyinella neglectus (Buckton, 1903). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [294]

 

Introduction

The distribution of this species is uncertain since Day (1999) recognised three undescribed species in the genus thereby throwing doubt on the previous species records. It is possible that this species is widespread across the inland of Australia but a species level revision of the genus is needed to determine which species occurs where.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA, WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Mulga Lands (ML), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Colour pale ochreous, with a grey pubescence. Pronotum long, and with the suprahumerals rather obtuse from a profile view, but the suprahumerals porrect and divergent from the dorsal aspect. Posterior horn rapidly tapers to a point, and is rather shorter than the tegmina. Scutellum covered by the pronotum. Tegmina clear hyaline, with yellow neuration and a broad limbus. Legs yellowish and only feebly dilated. Size, 7 x 3 mm (Buckton 1903).

 

Diagnosis References

Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [224]

 

History of changes

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