Genus Anzac Distant, 1916

Anzac bipunctata (Fabricius), type species of Anzac Distant.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anzac Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [43].

  Type species:

   Membracis bipunctata Fabricius, 1775 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus is distinguished by broad gena, recurved clypeus and distinctive coloration. The type species is found on Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland, and an undescribed species is known from Papua New Guinea. Day (1999) distinguishes the genus from the superficially similar Sextius Stål by a lack of reticulate venation (although there are extra crossveins), the short, straight median pronotal process, the total absence of lateral pronotal processes (although these can be absent from some Sextius specimens) and the dorsal pronotal carina only weakly developed. The type species is poorly represented in collections. Day (1999) lists Acacia Mill. (Fabaceae) as a food plant for A. bipunctata while the species in PNG has been collected from Melaleuca Vest (Myrtaceae).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Diagnosis

Body subelongate (face mutilated in the Fabrician type); pronotum subelongate, laterally unarmed, but angulate at base above eyes, anteriorly a little globosely truncate, centrally longitudinally carinate, the posterior process robust, broad at base, straight, tricarinate, gradually narrowing to apex, which is subacute, and about reaching posterior angle of inner tegminal margin; scutellum concealed; femora moderately thickened; tegmina extending beyond the abdominal apex, subhyaline, apical areas six, anteapical cells four (Distant 1916).

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. and Day M. F. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Family Membracidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Membracidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/membracid/membrac00.htm [accessed: 4.iv.2012]

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [43–44]

General References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [652–654]

History of changes