Species Acanthuchus nivalis Distant, 1916

Museums

Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: 3.x.1912, H. Hacker), Brisbane, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ (R.E. Turner), Kuranda, 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 [365].

 

Introduction

This species is widespread in eastern Australia from the wet tropics of North Queensland to the SE corner of New South Wales, including inland sites in the Australian Capital Territory and Broken Hill.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Hakea [PROTEACEAE]).

Associated Flora References

Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1250] (Hakea)

 

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum piceous, thickly greyishly pilose; body beneath and legs piceous, lateral areas of sternum thickly greyishly tomentose; a prominent greyish tomentose spot at each basal angle of scutellum; tegmina bronzy, the apical area more distinctly so, the veins (excluding apical area) more or less distinctly greyish, base and costal area piceous and more or less greyishly pilose; pronotum strongly centrally carinate, the lateral processes well produced, moderately flattened, broad at base but acutely narrowed at apices, outwardly not upwardly directed, the apices distinctly recurved, their anterior margins being thus moderately convex, the disk behind these processes gibbously raised into a somewhat large compressed elevation, posterior process almost reaching tegminal apices, strongly tricarinate, concave near base and then convexly impinging on tegmina; ocelli about as far apart from each other as from eyes. Long., incl. tegm. 3½–4 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 2½–3 mm (Distant 1916).

 

Diagnosis References

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACIDAE Germar, 1821	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
16-May-2012		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED