Species Ceraon vitta (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Centrotus vitta 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. [626].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (Broomfield (1971: 385) notes that the holotype is badly damaged), locality unknown.
• Oxyrhachus contorta Walker, F. 1858. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq. London : British Museum pp. 1-117. [66].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, Tasmania.
• Zanophara albovittata Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [90].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: viii-xii.1904, Koebele), Bundaberg, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [229] (synonymy of O. contorta)
• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [289] (synonymy of Z. albovittata)

 

Generic Combinations

• Ceraon vitta (Walker, 1851). —
  Funkhouser, W.D. 1927. General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Fasc. I. Membracidae. Northamton, Massachusetts : Smith College 581 pp. [381]

 

Introduction

This is a distinctive species with its irregular brown stripe along the tegmen. It is widespread and reasonably common on Acacia Mill. (Fabaceae) in southeastern Australia from the Riverland in South Australia to Tasmania and as far north as Bundaberg in SE Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: 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), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Acacia decurrens Willd. [FABACEAE] Black Wattle; Acacia baileyana F. Muell., 1888 [FABACEAE] Cootamundra Wattle; Acacia baileyana F.von Mueller [FABACEAE] Cootamundra Wattle; Acacia pycnantha Benth. [FABACEAE] Golden Wattle; Eucalyptus dalrympleana Maiden, 1920 [MYRTACEAE] White Gum; Acacia retinodes Schlechtendal, 1847 [FABACEAE] Wirilda).

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 retinodes; Acacia baileyana; Acacia decurrens; Acacia pycnantha)

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [662] (Eucalyptus dalrympleana; Acacia baileyana)

 

Diagnosis

Piceus; caput ferrugineo marginatum; abdomen apice ferrugineum; pedes ferruginei, tibiae vix dilatatae; alae anticae limpidae, bivittatae.
Pitchy, clothed with short tawny hairs; head transverse, short, punctured, with a ferruginous border, a little narrower than the fore-chest; face narrow, subfusiform, a little longer than the head behind it; eyes very prominent; fore-chest roughly punctured, moderately deep in front, slightly ridged, rising vertically from the head; shoulders rounded, not prominent; horns above long, thick, prismatic, twisted, ridged, very slightly diverging, a little inclined forward, hardly tapering from the base to the tips, which are truncated, in length about four times the breadth of the chest between them; outer side tapering towards the tip; inner and hind sides widening towards the tips; keel of the hind appendage black; scutcheon and breast clothed with pale yellow down; abdomen ferruginous towards the tip; legs ferruginous; shanks hardly widened; wings colourless; fore-wings narrow, pitchy and punctured at the base, whence a ferruginous stripe proceeds along the disk to the tip; two short brown stripes along the hind border; veins ferruginous; two discoidal areolets. Length of the body 2½ lines; of the wings 5 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. [626]

 

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
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED