Species Chaetophyes compacta (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aphrophora compacta Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [701].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (presented by R. Butler, Esq. Holotype by monotypy), Tasmania, as "Van Diemen's Land".
• Aphrophora bifrons Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [702].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (presented by the Entomological Club), New Holland
  Comment: holotype by monotypy.
• Lepyronia australiae Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [727].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (presented by the Haslar Hospital), New Holland
  Comment: holotype by monotypy.
• Aphrophora semiflava Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [187] [junior subjective synonym of Aphrophora compacta Walker, 1851].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2 ♀, New Hebrides
  Comment: holotype by monotypy.
• Aphrophora areolata Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [345].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Tasmania
  Comment: Holotype by monotypy.
• Chaetophyes bicolor Schmidt, E. 1919. Neue Gattungen und Arten der Subfamilie Machaerotinae Stal. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Cercopiden (Rhynchota Homoptera). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 79: 366-373 [368].

  Type data:

   Holotype IZW ♀, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Baker, C.F. 1927. Some Philippine and Malaysian Machaerotidae (Cercopoidea). Philippine Journal of Science 32: 529-547 [544] (notes on Chaetophyes bicolor Schmidt).
• Carystus mutabilis Spångberg, J. 1878. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 34(9): 3-14 [13].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♂ ♀, quantity unknown, Australia borealis et occidentalis.
• Chaetophyes unicolor Schmidt, E. 1919. Neue Gattungen und Arten der Subfamilie Machaerotinae Stal. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Cercopiden (Rhynchota Homoptera). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 79: 366-373 [369].

  Type data:

   Holotype IZW ♂, Australia.
• Polychaetophyes perkinsi Hacker, H. 1926. New species of Queensland Cercopidae (Homoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3): 243-248 [246].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) QM Ho. 3032 2 ♀, Stanthorpe, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 19(9): 479-504 [493] (synonymy of A. semiflava)
• Baker, C.F. 1927. Some Philippine and Malaysian Machaerotidae (Cercopoidea). Philippine Journal of Science 32: 529-547 [544] (synonymy of C. unicolor and P. perkinsi)
• Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [61] (synonymy of C. mutabilis and C. bicolor. Maa also lists A. bifrons, A. australiae, A. areolata, H. compacta, H. bifrons, H. mutabilis and C. unicolor as synonyms without giving the source of the synonymies)

 

Generic Combinations

• Chaetophyes compacta (Walker, 1851). —
  Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [61]

 

Introduction

This is a highly variable species distributed through most of the southeastern parts of Australia. The male is usually black while the female is pale brown in the body with extensive black markings in the forewings.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus sp undet. [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Body robust and compact, colour pattern of male much darker than in female. Head in female not distinctly produced forward. Postclypeus at each side with deep impressed transverse lines interspaced by haired rugae; medially often with a short weak keel. Side piece of vertex roughly rugose, in female slightly depressed. Tylus also slightly depressed, finely longitudinally striate; in male separated from postclypeus by a weak transverse carina; in female less than 1/2 as long as broad, anteriorly rounded off. Ocellar area long, about 2/3 as long as interocellar distance, in male often longitudinally raised. Occipital margin strongly reflexed; tentorial pit roundish, small, very shallow. Supra antennal triangle not longer than ocellar area. Pronotum with coarse, undulating and intersecting rugae, lacking distinct roundish punctures. Scutellum with straight, non-intersecting rugae. tegminal surface strongly uneven, apical and preapical cell distinctly concave and smooth in both sexes. Relative lengths and breadths of head, pronotum and scutellum male 9 : 27 : 25 and 36 : 38 : 16, female 13 : 35 : 31 and 44 : 50 : 22 respectively. Body length male 5.5-5.8 mm, female 7.1 - 8.2 mm. Male usually entirely shining black, with 1 or 2 pale spots at preapical cells of tegmen. Female body greenish yellow, tegmen varying from uniformly brownish to uniformly black, very often with some pale irregular markings, but no distinct pale fascia (Maa 1963).

 

ID Keys

Maa 1963: 56

 

Diagnosis References

Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [61–62]

 

Misidentification

— as Polychaetophyes serpulidia Kirkaldy, 1906, Hacker, H. 1922. On the emergence of two tube-dwelling homopterous insects. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7(4): 280–282 [281].

 

History of changes

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10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	10-May-2022	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	02-Sep-2021	MODIFIED
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