Species Euryaulax carnifex (Fabricius, 1775)

Euryaulax carnifex (Fabricius), adult, WA form.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Euryaulax carnifex (Fabricius), adult, WA form.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Euryaulax carnifex (Fabricius), adult, Qld form.

© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cercopis carnifex Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Ryngota. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. 816 pp. [dated 1775] [688].
• Triecphora inconstans Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [673] [junior subjective synonym of Cercopis carnifex Fabricius, 1775].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex? (presented by Sir J. Richardson), New Holland
  Comment: holotype by monotypy.
• Triecphora maculata Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 pp. 637-907. [673] [junior subjective synonym of Cercopis carnifex Fabricius, 1775].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown (from Mr Dring's collection), North West Coast of New Holland
  Comment: holotype by monotypy.
• Euryaulax callitettigoides Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [381] [junior subjective synonym of Cercopis carnifex Fabricius, 1775].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland; BPBM ♀ (coll.: viii.1904), Kuranda, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1908. On some Australian Homoptera. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 52: 97-111 [97] (synonymy of Euryaulax callitettigoides Kirkaldy)
• Lallemand, V. 1912. Homoptera. Fam. Cercopidae. Genera Insectorum 143: 1-167 [116] (synonymy of T. inconstans)
• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [313] (synonymy of T. maculata)

Generic Combinations

• Euryaulax carnifex (Fabricius, 1775). —
  Lallemand, V. 1949. Revision des Cercopinae. Mémoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 2(23): 1-193 [97]
• Eoscarta carnifex (Fabricius, 1775). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [313]
• Euryaulax carnifex (Fabricius, 1775). —
  Liang, A.-P. & Fletcher, M.J. 2002. Morphology of antennal sensilla in four Australian cercopid spittlebug species (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) with proposal of new tribal placement of three genera. Australian Journal of Entomology 41: 39-44

Introduction

This species occurs across the top end of Australia and in Papua New Guinea. It shows some variation in colouring across its range but its male genitalia was found to be consistent by Liang, et. al. (2012). As a genus, the bold orange and dark brown colouring is quite distinctive but the male genitalia need to be checked to discriminate this species from its congeners.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Northern Kimberley (NK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

Diagnosis

Length, male, 7.5-8 mm. A highly variable species, orange in colour with transverse dark brown or black markings. Head orange or brown. Pronotum anteriorly orange, posteriorly brown, or entirely orange, or entirely brown. Tegmen orange with two wide or narrow tranverse black or dark brown fasciae. Male genitalia illustrated (Evans 1966).

ID Keys

Liang et al. 2012: 155–159

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [313]

Liang, A.P., Combéfis, É. & Jiang, G.M. 2012. Revision of the Spittlebug Genus Euryaulax Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Cercopidae) from Australia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 105(2): 150–164 [160–161]

History of changes