Species Acanthuchus kershawi Goding, 1903

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• Acanthucus kershawi Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [17].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (coll.: Froggatt), Thornleigh, Blue Mtns, New South Wales.
• Sextius obtusus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [377].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: i.1905, possible holotype by monotypy), Sydney, NSW.

 

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 [295]

 

Introduction

The identity of this species is uncertain and a species level revision of the genus is needed. The species was originally described from "Thornleigh", Blue Mountains, New South Wales. No such locality appears still to exist although there is a suburb of Sydney of this name with direct rail links to the Blue Mountains. The species was also recorded from Sydney, New South Wales when A. obtusus Kirkaldy was synonymised with it. Goding (1903) gave the etymology as "Dedicated to Mr. J. A. Kershaw, of the Melbourne Museum, who supplied me with a number of interesting Australian forms."

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head black, triangular, apex acute, strongly curved backward. Eyes prominent; ocelli above a line passing through centre of eyes, near base, nearer to eyes than to each other. Prothorax inclined backward from base, piceous brown, covered with yellow hairs; lateral horns, short, turned directly outward, horizontal, slender, very acute; posterior process obtusely angled at base, thereafter slender, strongly sinuous to decurved acuminate apex, which does not reach the tips of tegmina. Tegmina with the costa and clavus entirely opaque and punctured, two discoidal cells, the second nearly circular, almost reaching exterior border of corium; veins brown, covered with yellow hairs; third apical cell crescentiform. Body, femora and tarsi black. Long. ♂ 3½, ♀ 4 mm.; lat. ♂ 1, ♀ 1½ mm. (Goding 1903).

 

ID Keys

Goding 1903: 13–14

 

Diagnosis References

Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [28]

 

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)