Species Eufairmairia consobrinus Distant, 1916

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• Eufairmairia consobrinus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [37].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Rockhampton, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation 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 [341].

 

Introduction

This species was described from at least ten specimens from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria (Broomfield 1971).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum dark purplish brown; sternum and legs a little paler; lateral areas of sternum and basal angles of scutellum greyishly tomentose; tegmina subhyaline, the venation ochraceous, base and basal half of costal area purplish brown; pronotum coarsely wrinkled and punctate, centrally longitudinally carinate, the lateral processes broad, compressed, obliquely upwardly directed, their apices roundly truncate, the posterior apical angle acute, their upper surfaces distinctly longitudinally carinate, posterior process reaching or almost reaching the tegminal apex, tricarinate. Long., incl. tegm., 7–8 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 5 mm (Distant 1916).

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [37]

 

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)