Species Cebes tenuis (Goding, 1926)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sextius tenuis Goding, F.W. 1926. New Membracidae, I. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 34: 243-246 [245].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ (deposited in F.W. Goding collection (now in USNM?). Coll: A.M. Lea), Homebush, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ (deposited in F.W. Goding collection (now in USNM?). Coll: Tepper), South Australia; whereabouts unknown ♀ (deposited in F.W. Goding collection (now in USNM?). Coll: Stewell), Victoria.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cebes tenuis (Goding, 1926). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. & Wade, V. 1965. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Membracoidea. Section 1. Raleigh, North Carolina : North Carolina State University pp. 1-743. [183]

 

Introduction

This species, which was omitted by Day (1999), is smaller and more slender than other species in the genus (Goding 1926).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale ferruginous yellow, tips suprahumerals and median carina piceous, distinctly and evenly punctured. Head quadrangular, base slightly sinuate, apex truncate; eyes prominent, globular, pearly grey; ocelli slightly above centre of eyes and slightly nearer to them. Pronotum strongly depressed, median carina very distinct, percurrent; suprahumerals short, conical, directed outward, forward and well upward, a distinct carina extending along front margin which with tips are fuscous; posterior process with altitude and width at base equal, very slender, apex decurved to tips tegmina. Sides scutellum yellow. Tegmina hyaline, veins pale ferruginous yellow, apical part with very few irregular transverse venules, the venation approaching the normal; five apical cells and two discoidal cells, the exterior one half size of interior cell. Wings with four apical cells. Below, the body and legs yellow, front and middle tibiae slightly dilated. Long (type ♀) 5 mm, lat 1.5mm, alt. 2 mm (Goding 1926).

 

Diagnosis References

Goding, F.W. 1926. New Membracidae, I. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 34: 243-246 [245]

 

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
		15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED