Species Machaerota pugionata Stål, 1865

Museums

Regional Maps

• Machaerota pugionata Stål, C. 1865. Homoptera nova vel minus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 145-165 [154].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM ♀, quantity unknown (Maa (1963) noted that a male holotype and female paratype exists in Stockholm but Stål (1865) only indicated that female syntype(s) existed. Assuming Stål's sex determinations were correct, Maa's (1963) recognition of a holotype does not constitute a lectotype designation because a male syntype is not available. The specimens in Stockholm must therefore be considered to remain as syntypes), Australia borealis.
• Pachymachaerota signoreti Schmidt, E. 1907. Monographie der Subfamilie Machaerotinae Stal, ein beitrag aus Kenntnis der Cercopiden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 68: 165-200 [199] [replacement name; unnecessary nom. nov. for Machaerota gupionata Signoret, 1879].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Maa, T.C. 1963. A review of the Machaerotidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Pacific Insects Monographs 5: 1-166 [107]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Machaerota gupionata Stål, 1865 [subsequent misspelling]. —
  Signoret, V.A. 1879. Essai sur les Jassides Stål, Fieb. et plus particulièrement sur les Acocéphalides Paton. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 9: 47-92, 259-280 [49]

 

Introduction

This species is currently regarded as endemic but further collecting in New Guinea may reveal its presence there. It is currently known from a few tropical localities in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: xylem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

The two species of Machaerota occurring in Australia are easily distinguished by colour. This species is primarily red and black while M. finitima is primarily brown. The scutellar spine on M. pugionata is short and straight while that of M. finitima is long and curved downwards.

 

History of changes

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27-Apr-2012		05-May-2014	MODIFIED
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