Species Bucktoniella pyramidatus (Funkhouser, 1927)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthucus pyramidatus Funkhouser, W.D. 1927. New Australian Membracidae (Homoptera). Records of the Australian Museum 15(5): 305-312 [310].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ (coll.: 30.xii.1913, G.H. Hardy), Wedge Bay, Tasmania.
  Paratype(s) AM ♀ (coll.: 25.iii.1916, G.H. Hardy), Hobart, Tasmania.

 

Generic Combinations

• Bucktoniella pyramidatus (Funkhouser, 1927). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [298]

 

Introduction

This robust squat species (6.5–7.5mm total length) has 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. The median posterior process is surmounted by a prominent ridge. It is known from southeastern Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales and is rare in collections.

 

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)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Large, yellow brown, punctate, pubescent; suprahumeral horns heavy, extending outward and upward and curving laterad; dorsal crest high, triangular, blunt; posterior process tectiform, extending to a point halfway between internal angles and tips of tegmina; tegmina wrinkled hyaline, base brown and punctate; sides of thorax white tomentose; undersurface and legs yellow brown (Funkhouser 1927).

 

Diagnosis References

Funkhouser, W.D. 1927. New Australian Membracidae (Homoptera). Records of the Australian Museum 15(5): 305-312 [310]

 

History of changes

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