Species Eufairmairia cupreus Distant, 1916

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• Eufairmairia cupreus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: R.E. Turner), Yallingup, Western Australia.

 

Introduction

This is one of two species of the genus known to occur in south western Western Australia. The type data given by Broomfield (1971) indicates that the collection was made between 23.xii.1013 and 23.i.1914 by R.E. Turner who is well known for having collected in SW Western Australia between 1935 and 1936 (see Day & Fletcher 1994) but there is little information about his earlier trip. The collector was given as R.E. Turner by Distant (1916) and it is presumably the same collector. The species was only tentatively placed in Eufairmairia by Distant (1916).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Face and clypeus black; pronotum brownish ochraceous, its basal frontal area black; sternum blackish, thickly greyishly pilose; abdomen beneath brownish ochraceous, the segmental margins paler; legs brownish ochraceous; tegmina pale hyaline, the venation and extreme base brownish ochraceous; pronotum coarsely punctate, the lateral processes triangular, outwardly and a little obliquely produced, their apices acute and slightly recurved, their upper surfaces very obsoletely carinate; the posterior process robust for about half its length, the apical area roundly depressed, its apex reaching the tegminal apices; ocelli about as near to eyes as to each other. Long., incl. tegm., 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 [38–39]

 

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 [344]

Day, M.F. & Fletcher, M.J. 1994. An annotated catalogue of the Australian Cicadelloidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1117-1288 [1120–1121]

 

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
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