Species Eufairmairiella curvicaudus (Goding, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sertorius curvicaudus Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [24].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM 2 ♂ (coll.: W.W. Froggatt), Tweed River, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Eufairmairiella curvicaudus (Goding, 1903). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [284]

 

Introduction

This species is reasonably common in eastern Australia from southern New South Wales to far North Queensland. A single specimen from Yanchep in SW Western Australia and identified by J.W. Evans may, in fact, represent one of the two undescribed species recognised by Day (1999).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head triangular, base nearly straight, lateral borders denticulate; ocelli on a line passing through centre of eyes and equidistant from each other and the eyes. Prothorax piceous with a median percurrent carina armed on each side with a rather long, very flat horn turned almost directly outward, very slightly upward, apex curved a little backward and but little elevated above dorsum; posterior process very broad from base to middle, then slender and gradually acuminate to the apex, strongly decurved from base to the apex which reaches tips of tegmina. Tegmina with very little of base punctured, vitreous and transparent, veins piceous, corium with first discoidal cell about one half the size of the second, the second apical cell very small. Long. 7; lat. 2 mm; incl. lat. corn. 5 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 [24]

 

General References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [671]

 

History of changes

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