Species Cebes transiens (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Centrotus transiens Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [624].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, locality unknown.
• Sertorius areolatus Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [23].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown (coll.: Kershaw; types deposited in F.W. Goding collection), Victoria; whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown (coll.: Tepper; types deposited in F.W. Goding collection), South Australia; whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown (coll.: Lea; types deposited in F.W. Goding collection), Braidwood, New South Wales; whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown (coll.: Lea; types deposited in F.W. Goding collection), Queanbeyan, New South Wales
  Comment: described from five ♂♂ and eight ♀♀.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [284] (synonymy of S. areolatus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Cebes transiens (Walker, 1851). —
  Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [39]

 

Introduction

This elegant, slender, mid brown species appears to be widespread in southeastern mainland Australia. Records in Goding (1903) for Sertorius areolatus Goding, which was listed as a synonym of C. transiens by Evans (1966), are from Victoria and South Australia without precise localities. The South Australian material was collected by Tepper who did much of his collecting on Kangaroo Island and in neighbouring parts of the state and it may be from here that his material originated. Broomfield (1971) noted that Walker's (1851) holotype, which is missing the abdomen and tegmina, bears a label "1904" which was taken by Day (1999) as a collection date, which is unlikely.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Acacia decurrens Willd. [FABACEAE] Black Wattle).

Associated Flora References

Cookson, L. & New, T.R. 1980. Observations on the biology of Sextius virescens (Fairmaire) (Homoptera, Membracidae) on Acacia in Victoria. Australian Entomological Magazine 7(1): 4–10 [9] (Acacia decurrens)

 

Diagnosis

Piceus; pedes ferruginei; femora nigra ; tibiae subdilatatae; alae limpidae; alae anticae basi piceae.
Pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs; head transverse, closely punctured, a little narrower than the fore-chest; its breadth about twice its length; front flat, notched on each side of the face which is obconical and about half the length of the head; fore-chest roughly punctured, moderately high in front, vising almost vertically from the head, with a slight ridge; shoulders rounded, not prominent; horns above conical, broad, prismatic, acute, slightly diverging and curved outward, a little inclined forward, in length about twice the breadth of the chest between them; edge ferruginous; hind side much narrower than either of the other sides which are slightly ridged; hind appendage keeled, slender, slightly curved downward, tapering from the base to the tip which is very acute and extends far beyond the tip of the abdomen; legs ferruginous; thighs black; shanks very slighlly widened; wings colourless; fore-wings rather long and narrow, pitchy and punctured at the base; veins ferruginous, pitchy at the base; two discoidal areolets. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 7 lines (Walker 1851).

 

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [624–625]

 

General 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 [381]

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [660]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [284]

Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [23]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACOIDEA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
26-Jun-2023	MEMBRACIDAE Germar, 1821	24-May-2023	MODIFIED
10-May-2022	CICADOMORPHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021	AUCHENORRHYNCHA	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
16-May-2012		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
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