Species Platybrachys lurida (Walker, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurybrachys lurida Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [390].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (holotype by monotypy), locality unknown but almost certainly Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Platybrachys lurida (Walker, 1851). —
  Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 19(9): 479-504 [488]

 

Introduction

The identity of this species was determined by Jerôme Constant, RBINS, Brussells, after examination of the type specimen in BMNH. The holotype specimen does not bear a collection label but its distribution was presumed to be Australia because of the known distribution of the genus generally. On 2.xi.2019, a member of the Orange Field Naturalist and Conservation Society photographed the specimen illustrated here on Mt Canobolas near Orange, NSW, Identification of the species by Jerôme Constant indicates that the species' distribution includes the South East Highlands bioregion.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Locality unknown but almost certainly Australia

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Body pitchy, broad; head as broad as the chest; crown slightly arched, somewhat depressed, striated lengthwise; its breadth about six times its length; front scutcheon-shaped, broader than long, very slightly convex, tuberculate, deeply concave where it joins the epistoma which is rhomboidal, almost smooth, and has a longitudinal ridge; fore-chest convex on the fore border, straight behind, transverse, half oval, a little longer than the head; middle-chest with a slight middle ridge, and a ridge along the sides of the angle; abdomen black, longer than the chest, furnished with a large mass of white filaments; hind borders of the segments tawny; legs black, very broad; hind-shanks armed with three stout teeth; fore-wings ferruginous, slightly tinged with blue; a curved black band in the middle; their tips black with two or three white dots and a short somewhat zigzag tawny band; veins ferruginous, hind-wings black. Length of the body 3.5 lines; of the wings 9 lines. (Walker 1851)

 

Diagnosis References

Walker, F. 1851. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 pp. 261-636. [390]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
23-Dec-2019	EURYBRACHIDAE Stål, 1862	10-Dec-2019	MODIFIED	Dr Murray Fletcher
30-Nov-2010		01-May-2014	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)