Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

<I>Chaetophyes compacta</I> (Walker), adult male.

Chaetophyes compacta (Walker), adult male.

<I>Chaetophyes compacta</I> (Walker), adult female.

Chaetophyes compacta (Walker), adult female.

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Species Chaetophyes compacta (Walker, 1851)


Compiler and date details

19 April 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Generic Combinations

 

Introduction

This is a highly variable species distributed through most of the southeastern parts of Australia. The male is usually black while the female is pale brown in the body with extensive black markings in the forewings.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus sp undet. [MYRTACEAE]).

 

Diagnosis

Body robust and compact, colour pattern of male much darker than in female. Head in female not distinctly produced forward. Postclypeus at each side with deep impressed transverse lines interspaced by haired rugae; medially often with a short weak keel. Side piece of vertex roughly rugose, in female slightly depressed. Tylus also slightly depressed, finely longitudinally striate; in male separated from postclypeus by a weak transverse carina; in female less than 1/2 as long as broad, anteriorly rounded off. Ocellar area long, about 2/3 as long as interocellar distance, in male often longitudinally raised. Occipital margin strongly reflexed; tentorial pit roundish, small, very shallow. Supra antennal triangle not longer than ocellar area. Pronotum with coarse, undulating and intersecting rugae, lacking distinct roundish punctures. Scutellum with straight, non-intersecting rugae. tegminal surface strongly uneven, apical and preapical cell distinctly concave and smooth in both sexes. Relative lengths and breadths of head, pronotum and scutellum male 9 : 27 : 25 and 36 : 38 : 16, female 13 : 35 : 31 and 44 : 50 : 22 respectively. Body length male 5.5-5.8 mm, female 7.1 - 8.2 mm. Male usually entirely shining black, with 1 or 2 pale spots at preapical cells of tegmen. Female body greenish yellow, tegmen varying from uniformly brownish to uniformly black, very often with some pale irregular markings, but no distinct pale fascia (Maa 1963).

 

ID Keys

Maa 1963: 56

 

Misidentification

— as Polychaetophyes serpulidia Kirkaldy, 1906, Hacker, H. 1922. On the emergence of two tube-dwelling homopterous insects. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7(4): 280–282 [281].

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
10-May-2022 CICADOMORPHA 10-May-2022 MODIFIED
02-Jun-2021 AUCHENORRHYNCHA 02-Sep-2021 MODIFIED
27-Apr-2012 10-May-2022 MODIFIED
31-May-2010 31-May-2010 ADDED
31-May-2010 31-May-2010 ADDED
26-Jul-2010 10-May-2022 MODIFIED
10-May-2022 MODIFIED