Species Pogonotypellus australis (Goding, 1939)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pogontypus australis Goding, F.W. 1939. The Old World Membracidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 47: 315-349 [332].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀ (coll.: Lea), Tamworth, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pogonotypellus australis (Goding, 1939). —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [297]

 

Introduction

This species is widespread in inland New South Wales extending into SE Queensland. It is a fairly small dark brown species.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Base of head highly arched with a tubercle above each ocellus, a circular depression between, black; ocelli some nearer to and even with the upper margin of the large prominent eyes. Pronotum gibbous, finely punctate, dark ferruginous, base broadly and smooth spot above each eye, black, the basal margin a strong carina; median carina strongly percurrent, lateral carinae short, curved, nearer to humerals than to median carina; posterior process paler, abruptly depressed and narrow from the extreme base, straight, impinging upon the scutellum and margins of tegmina to apex of clavus, tip blunt. Tegmina yellow hyaline, base broadly piceous, the hyaline area extended through the middle, costal cell dark ferruginous and with base punctate; two contiguous discoidal cells and five apical cells, their veins curved inwardly; clavus with two veins, exterior vein curved to inner margin behind middle, apex obtuse; wings with four apical cells. Body and femora black, tibiae and tarsi pale ferruginous, chest yellow pubescent. Type ♀, long 4, lat. 1.3 mm (Goding 1939).

 

Diagnosis References

Goding, F.W. 1939. The Old World Membracidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 47: 315-349 [332]

 

History of changes

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