Genus Bucktoniella Evans, 1966

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bucktoniella Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [298].

  Type species:

   Acanthucus pyramidatus Funkhouser, 1927 by original designation.

 

Introduction

This endemic monotypic genus is distributed from Sydney, New South Wales, to southern Tasmania. The single species is robust and squat with the lateral pronotal processes set back from the front of the pronotum which therefore seems to bulge anteriorly. The pronotum and the forewings, particularly over the basal region, bear prominent erect setae.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Diagnosis

The face of the head slopes posteriorly and is not in alignment with the anterior, vertical, part of the pronotum. The anterior median margin of the pronotum, as viewed from above, is not in alignment with the lateral processes and is convex. The lateral processes, which are three sided and in dorsal aspect broadly triangular and backwardly curved, are almost horizontal; their dorsal margins are ridged. The posterior process, which is keeled, extends as a ridge as far as the anterior margin of the pronotum; posterior to the lateral processes, it may be straight or anteriorly convex and it does not extend as far as the apices of the folded tegmina. In the tegmina, M and Cu1 are proximally fused for a short distance and m–cu3 is the only linking crossvein (Evans 1966).

Margin of pronotum convex anteriorly and not in alignment with the LPPs. Prominent ridge on the median posterior process. Pronotal notch wide. Lateral pronotal processes exhibit sexual dimorphism. Setae on tegmen surface (Day 1999).

 

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

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [655]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [298]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)