Species Otinotoides acuticornis (Goding, 1926)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sertorius acuticornis Goding, F.W. 1926. New Membracidae, I. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 34: 243-246 [244].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀ (coll.: Dodd, F.W. Goding collection), Kuranda, Queensland.

 

Generic Combinations

• Otinotoides acuticornis (Goding, 1926). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [304]

 

Introduction

This species is only known from the holotype which Day (1999) couldn't find in USNM.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Purplish black, shining, coarsely and evenly punctured, with short pale yellow pubescence. Head finely punctate, base broadly sinuate with eyes slightly wider than base of pronotum, genae rounded from eyes to clypeus which is triangular, a tubercle each side of base, apex acute, not recurved; eyes prominent, brownish gray; ocelli large, equidistant, slightly above centre of eyes. Pronotum elevated and convex in front, produced each side high above humerals in a rather long flat compessed acuminate horn directed outward, well upward, hind margin straight, front margin curved backward, both margins sharp; humerals prominent, rather acute; percurrent median carina; posterior process deeply notched each side at base, slender, sides parallel to middle, then gradually acuminate, dorsum seen from side broadly sinuate, apical third decurved with apical margins tegmina almost to their tips, the process triquetrous. Broad sides scutellum densely creamy pubescent. Tegmina ample, fuscous hyaline; clavus piceous coriaceous and punctured on basal third, membranous posteriorly, a small decoloured spot just behind its apex which is not gradually acuminate, its exterior vein joining margin just in front; radial vein of corium forked at base of first apical cell, exterior ulnar vein forked slightly behind middle at the base of interior discoidal cell, interior ulnar vein percurrent to base of fifth apical cell, a transverse venule close to bases of two ulnar veins; five apical elongate cells and two discoidal cells, the exterior slightly smaller, nearly triangular, base sessile; wings with four apical cells. Below, the body dull black, sides of chest densely and extensively pale yellow pubescent; legs fuscous, tarsi paler, tibiae not dilated. Length (holotype ♀) 7 mm, lat. 2.5 mm, alt. pron. 2 mm (Goding 1926).

 

Diagnosis References

Goding, F.W. 1926. New Membracidae, I. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 34: 243-246 [244]

 

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)