Species Acanthuchus rufiventris (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Centrotus rufiventris Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [616].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (Broomfield (1971) notes that all the pronotal processes are broken on the holotype, a point noted in Walker's (1851) original description), Moreton Bay, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Acanthuchus rufiventris (Walker, 1851). —
  Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [14]

 

Introduction

This species was described from Moreton Bay in SE Queensland but Goding (1903) also noted that it had been collected in South Australia by Tepper. Tepper did much of his collecting on Kangaroo Island and neighbouring parts of the state but the precise locality for this species remains unknown.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Ferrugineus; caput nigro bimaculatum; cornua lateralia apice nigra; cornu posticum bicristatum; abdomen rufum; pedes nigro vittati; alae anticae subfulvae.
Ferruginous, thinly clothed with shining yellow hairs; head transverse, minutely punctured, narrower than the fore-chest, surrounded by a rim, with a black spot on each side between the eyelets and the eyes; face subfusiform, prominent in front, as long as the head behind it; fore-chest roughly punctured, low and inclined backward in front, distinctly ridged; shoulders rounded, not prominent; horns above stout, conical, prismatic, diverging, slightly ascending, black towards the tips which are mutilated in the specimen described; hind appendage slender, extending to the tip of the abdomen, much attenuated towards the tip which is very acute, armed with two erect, high, compressed, conical, acute humps, one at the base, the other in the middle; abdomen bright red, punctured, blackish towards the base beneath; legs ferruginous; thighs striped with black; fore-wings pale tawny, tawny and punctured towards the base; veins tawny; two discoidal areolets; hind-wings colourless. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 7 lines (Walker 1851).

 

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 [13–14]

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [616]

 

History of changes

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