Genus Ceraon Buckton, 1903

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ceraon Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [228].

  Type species:

   Centrotus tasmaniae Fairmaire, 1846 by subsequent designation, see Stål, C. 1866. Analecta Hemipterologica. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 10: 381-394 [386].
• Daunus Stål, C. 1866. Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Hemiptera Africana 4: 1-276 [87] [junior homonym; of Daunus Rafinesque, 1815].

  Type species:

   Centrotus tasmaniae Fairmaire, 1846 by subsequent designation, see Stål, C. 1866. Analecta Hemipterologica. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 10: 381-394 [386].
• Zanophara Kirkaldy, G.W. 1904. Bibliographical and nomenclatorial notes on the Hemiptera.— No. 3. The Entomologist 37(498): 279-283 [279] [replacement name; for Daunus Stål, 1866].
• Sinenodus Goding, F.W. 1931. Classification of the Old World Membracidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 39: 299-313 [311].

  Type species:

   Daunus gracile Goding, 1903 by monotypy.

 

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 [288]

 

Introduction

This is a mainly southern genus extending as far northwards only to Carnarvon in Western Australia and Bundaberg in SE Queensland. The genus was revised by Kitching (1976) who recognised five species, one of which was new. Day (1999) recognised a sixth unnamed species from near Barrington Tops on the New South Wales North Coast.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Aru Ils.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Jarrah Forest (JF), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW)

Diagnosis

The characteristics of this genus, and by which it may be distinguished from Daunus, are the truncated and broadly flattened extremities of the suprahumeral processes. These are carinated. The posterior horn is long, acute, somewhat curved, and free above the abdomen. The tegmina show a tendency to develop short transverse veins from the radials (Buckton 1903).

Lateral pronotal processes four-sided and terminally enlarged. Ocelli equidistant from each other and from eyes. Pronotal notch absent or nearly so. Median pronotal process extends almost to tip of tegmen. M and Cu1 basally distinct. Hind tibial cucullate setae minute. Subcostal cell long, almost uniform in width (Day 1999).

Day (1999) provided a comprehensive description of the genus.

 

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: 5.iv.2012]

 

Diagnosis References

Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [228]

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [660–662]

 

General References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [660–662]

Kitching, R.L. 1976. The genus Ceraon Buckton (Homoptera: Membracidae) with description of a new species and notes on genitalic nomenclature. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 14: 339-351

 

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)