Species Eufairmairia fraternus Distant, 1916

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eufairmairia fraternus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [36].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ (Distant coll.: 1911-383), Gayndah, Qld.

  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 [351].

 

Introduction

This is the best known and most widespread species in the genus. It is a large robust dark brown species found on eucalypt trees.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Esperance Plains (ESP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum dull testaceous, faintly ochraceously pilose; legs a little paler testaceous; lateral areas of sternum and basal angles of scuteilum greyishly or pale ochraceously tomentose; tegmina pale hyaline, venation dull testaceous, base black, basal half of costal area, and base of discoidal area ferruginous; pronotum finely wrinkled and punctate, centrally longitudinally carinate, the lateral processes obliquely raised, a little narrowed to their apices, which are also a little obliquely roundly truncate, their upper surfaces longitudinally carinate, posterior process with the lateral areas carinate, its apex passing the posterior angle of inner tegminal margin, but not reaching tegminal apex. Long., incl. tegm., 7–8 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 4½–5 mm (Distant 1916).

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [36–37]

 

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)