Species Matumuia laura Day, 1999

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• Matumuia laura Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [685].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (coll.: 10.ix.1974, A. & M. Walford-Huggins), North Kennedy, near Laura, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This large glossy species with flamboyantly extended and expanded posterior pronotal process may be a morphological aberration of Sarantus nobilis Kirkaldy which is also large, glossy and similarly coloured to M. laura. The only known specimen comes from Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

A large dark species, immediately recognised by the extension of the median pronotol process well beyond the apex of the tegmen and the abdomen. Length 11 mm, surface coarsely punctate, covered with fine hair-like setae (Day 1999).

Day (1999) gives a comprehensive description of the species.

 

Diagnosis References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [685]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)