Species Eufrenchia falcata (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Centrotus falcatus Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [622].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (Presented by Rev. Augustus Beaufort), Tasmania.
• Sertorius curvicornis Stål, C. 1869. Bidrag till Membracidernas kannedom. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 26: 231-300 [287].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♂, quantity unknown, Adelaide, South Australia.
• Ibiceps falcatus Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [239] [junior homonym; of Eufrenchia falcatus (Walker)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) sex, quantity unknown (Tepper collection), Murray Bridge, South Australia.
• Eufrenchia leae Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [26].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 7 ♀ (coll.: A.M. Lea), Western Australia.
• Ibiceps bucktoni Funkhouser, W.D. 1951. Homoptera, Fam. Membracidae. Genera Insectorum 208: 1-383 [241] [replacement name; for Ibiceps falcatus Buckton, 1903].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [25] (synonymy of S. curvicornis)
• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [280] (synonymy of I. falcatus)
• Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [673] (synonymy of E. leae)

 

Generic Combinations

• Eufrenchia falcata (Walker, 1851). —
  Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [25]

 

Introduction

This species is widespread across southern Australia and is particularly common in inland and coastal areas of Western Australia (Day 1999).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Piceus; pectus flavo hirtum; abdomen nigrum, albo hirtum; pedes ferruginei; alae anticae Iuridae, basi piceae; alae posticae sublimpidae.
Pitchy, clothed with dingy white hairs; head transverse, flat, finely punctured, angular in front, a little narrower than the forechest; face narrow, a little less than half the length of the head; fore-chest rather low, very slightly ridged, roughly punctured, rising almost vertically from the head; shoulders rounded, not prominent; horns above very thick, almost erect, nearly contiguous at the base, slightly diverging, prismatic, twisted, with three ridges on the inner side towards the tips which are truncated and slightly hooked; hind appendage very slightly curved, extending much beyond the tip of the abdomen, keeled, tapering from the base to the tip which is acute; breast clothed with yellow hairs; abdomen black, clothed beneath with white hairs; legs dark ferruginous; fore-wings lurid, narrow, lanceolate, pitchy and punctured at the base; veins ferruginous; hind-wings almost colourless. Length of the body 3½ lines; of the wings 7 lines (Walker 1851).

 

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [622–623]

 

History of changes

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