Species Sextius reticulatus Distant, 1916

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Regional Maps

• Sextius reticulatus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [34].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: Surg. J. Bynoe, R.N), NW coast, Western Australia.

Introduction

Broomfield (1971) gave label data from the holotype which state "New Holl." but Distant's (1916) original description states NW Coast of Australia. Distant also said "The type of this species was presented to the British Museum in 1844, and is to be structurally identified by the short lateral processes, the robust posterior pronotal process, and the strongly reticulate tegmina; the colour markings are also very pronounced."

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Body and legs ochraceous; face, a transverse fascia between and including the anterior margins of the lateral pronotal processes, and the femora (excluding apices) black; pronotum thickly, rather coarsely punctate, the lateral processes very short, robust, and straightly directed outwardly, finely centrally carinate, the posterior process robust, faintly tricarinate, its apex not reaching the tegminal apices; tegmina with nearly the apical half subhyaline and strongly reticulately veined; the legs and pronotal margin before face are more darkly ochraceous than the upper surface. Long., incl. tegm., 6½ mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 2½ mm (Distant 1916).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [34]

General 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 [372]

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