Species Alosextius carinatus (Funkhouser, 1927)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthucus carinatus Funkhouser, W.D. 1927. New Australian Membracidae (Homoptera). Records of the Australian Museum 15(5): 305-312 [311].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K53627 ♂, South Australia.
  Paratype(s) AM K53627 ♀, South Australia.
• Pogon flavescens Goding, F.W. 1930. Membracidae in the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum Novitates 421: 1-27 [25].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♀, New South Wales.

 

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 [299] (synonymy of P. flavescens)

 

Generic Combinations

• Alosextius carinatus (Funkhouser, 1927). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [299]

 

Introduction

This species is distributed along coastal areas of Queensland. Funkhouser (1927) gives the type locality for A. carinatus as "South Australia" but Day (1999) casts doubt on this because the genus is otherwise distributed in northern and eastern Queensland. In addition, the type locality for Pogon flavescens Goding was given as "New South Wales" which indicates that the species may extend further south along the eastern coastline of Australia. Evans (1966) points out that there is sexual dimorphism in Alosextius in the shape of the lateral pronotal processes which are more prominent in the female than in the male.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Greenish brown, rugose, punctate, not pubescent; suprahumeral horns tricarinate, acute, extending outward, upward and forward; median dorsal carina foliaceous, not projecting in a horn; posterior process decurved, reaching almost to apices of tegmina; tegmina yellowish hyaline; undersurface and abdomen brown; legs yellow brown (Funkhouser 1927).

 

Diagnosis References

Funkhouser, W.D. 1927. New Australian Membracidae (Homoptera). Records of the Australian Museum 15(5): 305-312 [311]

 

History of changes

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