Species Eufairmairia giganticus (Goding, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sertorius giganticus Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [20].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM 2 ♀ (coll.: Tepper), South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Eufairmairia giganticus (Goding, 1903). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [281]

 

Introduction

This is claimed, by Goding (1903) to be the largest Australian membracid with an overall length of 12 mm. The type material was collected by Tepper who did much of his collecting on Kangaroo Island and adjacent parts of South Australia but it cannot be assumed that this is the source of Tepper's specimens. Evans (1966) also recorded the species from Baxter in SE Victoria which may indicate a southeastern coastal locality in South Australia for the type material.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head black, broad, punctured and impressed, apex produced, lateral borders with a denticle near base; ocelli equidistant from each other and the eyes and on a line through the centre of the eyes; base lightly curved. Prothorax black, densely and rudely punctured, furnished with a median carina and armed above each lateral angle with a strong triquetrous horn, which is turned outward and a little upward, not at all forward, broad, compressed, and flattened at apex, which is obtusely rounded, the posterior angle acuminate; the posterior surface is broadest, on the inner surface several carinae; dorsum between the lateral horns broad, flat, increasing in altitude backward; posterior process starts from the highest point, is tectiform and broad for some distance from the base, thereafter gradually acuminate to the apex which just passes the tip of the abdomen; laterally there are a few carinae. Tegmina ferruginous, opaque, basal portion and nearly all of costal cell punctured, a white spot at the interior angle. Legs piceous, tibiae triquetrous. Long. ♀ 12; lat. 4 mm., incl. lat. corn. 6 mm (Goding 1903).

 

Diagnosis References

Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [20–21]

 

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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