Species Chaetophyes admittens (Walker, 1858)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aphrophora admittens Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [345].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (ex Ent. Club #44.12), New Holland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Chaetophyes admittens (Walker, 1858). —
  Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [59]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Very similar to Ch. compacta Wk., length similar, but differing in following points: Body much slenderer; breadth and profile depth distinctly smaller; male tegmen with dark markings distinctly darker than body (in compacta male, tegmen as dark as or paler than body); female body and tegmen never black. Transverse carina (male) separating tylus from postclypeus stronger. Pronotum less convex. Tegminal surface rather even; apical and preapical cells weakly concave, in female with indistinct shallow wrinkles. Relative lengths and breadths of head, pronotum and scutellum male 9 : 27 : 26 and 35 : 37 : 15, female 11 : 32 : 34 and 43 : 45 : 19 respectively. Body length male 5.5 - 6.0 mm, female 6.7 - 8.2 mm.

 

ID Keys

Maa 1963: 56.

 

Diagnosis References

Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [59]

 

History of changes

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