Species Pogonella minutus (Goding, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Centrotypus minutus Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [28].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown (coll.: Tepper; total syntype series comprises 3 males and 1 female), South Australia; whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown (coll.: Froggatt; total syntype series is 3 males and 1 female), Mosman Bay, New South Wales; whereabouts unknown sex, quantity unknown (coll.: Lea; total syntype series comprises 3 males and 1 female), Clarence River, Tamworth, New South Wales
  Comment: The type series comprises three males and one female but Goding (1903) did not indicate which specimens came from which locality.

 

Generic Combinations

• Crito minutum (Goding, 1903). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. & Wade, V. 1965. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Membracoidea. Section 1. Raleigh, North Carolina : North Carolina State University pp. 1-743. [227]
• Pogonella minutus (Goding, 1903). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [286]

 

Introduction

This is the smallest Australian membracid reaching a total length of about 3 mm. It was originally described from specimens from locations in three states and the location of the types, originally deposited in the F.W. Goding collection, is currently unknown. The South Australian material was collected by Tepper who did much of his collecting on Kangaroo Island and adjacent parts of the mainland and it is possible that these syntypes came from that region.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head black, triangular, deorsum, with scattered yellow hairs; ocelli above a line passing through centre of eyes to which they are nearer than to each other, base barely curved. Prothorax black at base, and apex, otherwise dark brown, convex, armed on each side above lateral angles with a very minute pointed horn extended directly outward; the dorsum most elevated at base of posterior process which is distinctly sinuous, tectiform, acuminate, apex reaching end of abdomen, but shorter than apices of tegmina. Tegmina broad, short, ferruginous, and punctured at base, nearly all of costal and basal third of radial cells punctured and opaque; corium with the first discoidal cell triangular, half size of second, the second long narrow, directed diagonally to apical veins; third apical cell with base curved toward interior angle; veins milky white; first apical cell minute. Body below black. Tibiae and tarsi ferruginous. Long. 3; lat. 1 mm.; but little broader between apices of lateral horns. The female differs from the male in the lateral horns which are little more than minute tubercles, and the broader basal cells (Goding 1903).

 

Diagnosis References

Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [28]

 

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)