Species Eufairmairia rubridorsata (Buckton, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pterosticta rubridorsata Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [230].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Adelaide, South Australia
  Comment: holotype was originally erroneously described as a female.

 

Generic Combinations

• Eufairmairia rubridorsata (Buckton, 1903). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [281]

 

Introduction

This species appears to be more reddish brown than other species of the genus. It has been recorded from southern localities in South Australia and Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Suprahumeral processes obtusely pointed and dark fuscous in colour; the posterior apex sordid ochreous-red and stouter than the last species described [Pterosticta spreta Buckton = Sextius spretus (Buckton)]. The tegmina pointed at the apices, hyaline, and marked by reddish nervures, the radials at their tips being subdivided by short transverse nervures; the base much stippled with transparent pores. Legs dilated and ferruginous. The front aspect shows the horns slightly recurved. The example figured is a female*, and has a red line down the dorsum. Size, 8 x 5 mm (Buckton 1903).

* Broomfield (1971) stated that this was in error, the specimen being a male.

 

Diagnosis 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]

Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [230]

 

History of changes

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