Species Porcorhinus mastersi Goding, 1903

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• Porcorhinus mastersi Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [39].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MMUS 1 ♀ (coll.: Masters), Sydney, New South Wales; AMNH 1 ♂ (coll.: A.M. Lea), Mt Victoria, New South Wales.
• Gudwana typica Distant, W.L. 1917. Descriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian Homoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 186-191 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [97]

 

Introduction

This species is the only Australian ledrine with pronotal horns and hence is very easy to identify. It is found in eastern mainland Australia but is not common in collections. The species was named after George Masters, Curator of the Macleay Museum, Sydney, from 1874 to 1912 (Whitley 1974), who first brought the species to Goding's notice.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

♂. Head ferruginous, mottled with yellow. Prothorax ferruginous red, with a broad yellow band passing across the front. Scutellum sordid yellow. Tegmina with basal third yellow, punctured with ferruginous, the middle third ferruginous, the veins darker, the apical third clearer. Abdomen salmon colour, genital apparatus tawny. Femora tawny, apex black: tibiae and tarsi tawny. Long. ♂ 9; lat. 1½.; incl. lat. corn. 3½ mm. The female is sordid green, the tips of the lateral horns brown. (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 [39]

 

General References

Whitley, G.P. 1974. Masters, George (1837–1912). Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/masters-george-4166/text6645 [accessed 23 September 2011]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		02-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)