Species Acanthuchus festivus Distant, 1916

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthusus festivus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: ix.1904, F.P. Dodd), Kuranda, Queensland.
• Acanthucus flavidorsus Goding, F.W. 1926. New Membracidae, I. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 34: 243-246 [244].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀ (coll.: Froggatt), Tweed River, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) USNM 3 ♀ (coll.: Froggatt), Tweed River, New South Wales.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Goding, F.W. 1926. New Membracidae, I. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 34: 243-246 [244] (synonymy of A. festivus)

 

Introduction

This species is found in coastal areas between Tweed River in NE New South Wales and the wet tropics of North Queensland. Although the type locality was not stated by Distant (1916), the material was collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics Monteith 1991). Broomfield (1971) provided evidence that the type material of A. festivus comprised a single male from Kuranda, a holotype by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pronotum and face reddish ochraceous, the posterior process from base to near apex pale stramineous, the central carination on frontal area and margins of lateral processes black; femora dark castaneous, their apices and the tibiae and tarsi stramineous; tegmina bronzy brown, a costal spot before apex and a larger apical spot stramineous; pronotum anteriorly very strongly centrally carinate, the lateral processes outwardly triangularly produced, outwardly and apically very slightly upwardly directed, the disk behind these processes strongly gibbously upwardly produced and moderately compressed, posterior process concave for about half its length from base and thence convex to apex, which nearly reaches the tegminal apex; ocelli almost as near to eyes as to each other. Long., incl. tegm., 4 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 [28–29]

 

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 [350]

Monteith, G.B. 1991. The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. South Brisbane : Queensland Museum 1, 34 pp. [ISBN 0 7242 4481 6] [1]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)