Species Polonius froggatti Goding, 1939

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polonius froggatti Goding, F.W. 1939. The Old World Membracidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 47: 315-349 [348].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀ (coll.: W.W. Froggatt), Tweed River, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

Evans (1966) doubted that this was a true Polonius but Day (1999) chose not to separate it into its own genus until additional material becomes available. The species is only known from SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head longer than broad, finely punctate, hardly pubescent, blackish brown, base highly arched; eyes globular, yellowish grey; ocelli nearer to and even with upper margins of eyes, a short carina between; margins of genae acutely angulate below eyes, a small lobule each side of clypeus, the latter short, rounded below margins of genae. Pronotum blackish brown, weakly yellow pubescent, base deeply impressed each side, convex in front, median carina strongly percurrent subfoliaceous on the disk (in the type threre is a short carina each side extended on the disk from the median carina obliquely backward); humerals triangular, subprominent; suprahumerals short, triangular, tricarinate, upper surface irregularly carinate, lightly curved upward and outward, tips blunt, recurved; posterior process slender from base which is slightly separated from the scutellum, basal third straight, middle third obliquely elevated, apical third horizontal and very slender distant from margins of, and about as long as, the tegmina. Scutellum visible. Tegmina two and a half times longer than broad, ovate, subhyaline, finely wrinkled and punctate, base broadly, and costal cell, opaque brown; two unequal discal and five apical cells, their veins curved inwardly; clavus with margins parallel, two veins, the exterior vein curved to inner margin behind middle, apex obliquely truncate. Wings with four apical cells. Sides of chest unarmed, legs simple, femora black, tibiae and tarsi brown, not pilose. Type ♀, long. 5 mm, lat. int. sum. corn. 2 mm (Goding 1939).

 

Diagnosis References

Goding, F.W. 1939. The Old World Membracidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 47: 315-349 [348–349]

 

General References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [700–701]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [305, 307]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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