Species Anzac bipunctatus (Fabricius, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Membracis bipunctata Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Ryngota. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. 816 pp. [dated 1775] [677].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, 'Australia'.

  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 [336].

 

Generic Combinations

• Anzac bipunctatus (Fabricius, 1775). —
  Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [44]

 

Introduction

This small greenish yellow species is only known from localities on the eastern half of Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland. It was the first membracid species to be described from Australia with the type material having been collected by Joseph Banks in 1770 when HMS Endeavour was beached for repairs. The species has been misidentified by most workers and its identity was finally correctly established by Day (1999).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Known hosts: Acacia, tended by the ant Oecophylla (Day 1999).

 

Diagnosis

M. thorace subinermi, postice producto, abdomine breviore, testaceo, elytris macula baseos nigra. Parva. Corpus testaceum, macula oblonga nigra ad basin elytrorum (Fabricius 1775).

Body, tegmina, and legs pale tawny brown; tegmina with two black spots near base. Long. 5 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 2 mm. (Distant 1916).

 

Diagnosis References

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

Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [677]

 

General References

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

 

History of changes

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