Species Sarantus nobilis Kirkaldy, 1906

Sarantus nobilis Kirkaldy, adult female.

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Museums

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• Sarantus nobilis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [374].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.
• Godingella queenslandensis Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [32].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Broomfield, P.S. 1971. A catalogue of the Membracid types (Homoptera : Membracidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 25: 327-386 [371].
• Sarantus australensis Goding, F.W. 1926. Synonymy of Buckton's Australian Membracidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 34: 207-208 [208].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀ (coll.: vi.1901, Batchelor), Brisbane, Queensland.

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 [303–304] (synonymy of G. queenslandensis, S. australensis)

Generic Combinations

• Sarantus nobilis Kirkaldy, 1906.
• Godingella nobilis (Kirkaldy, 1906). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. & Wade, V. 1965. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Membracoidea. Section 1. Raleigh, North Carolina : North Carolina State University pp. 1-743. [211]
• Sarantus nobilis Kirkaldy, 1906. —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [303]

Introduction

This large black species with its long straight posterior pronotal process is quite distinctive in the Australian fauna. Matamuia laura Day may be a morphological aberration with the apex of the posterior pronotal process foliaceous and curved upwards well beyond the apex of the tegmina. S. nobilis is reasonably common along the eastern coastline of mainland Australia from Cape York Peninsula in far North Queensland to the Sydney basin of New South Wales. It has also been recorded in the Northern Territory and Papua New Guinea. The type locality for the synonym Godingella queenslandensis Distant was given only as Queensland but the two specimens were collected by F.P. Dodd who did most of his collecting in the wet tropics of North Queensland (Monteith 1991) and it is likely that this region is the source of the specimens.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Pitchy, with yellowish pubescence; veins of tegmina apically and legs dark ferruginous; eyes yellowish. Tegmina vitreous with a slight yellowish tinge. Horns very sharp, bases remote, subperpendicular, directed slightly forward and outward, posterior process flat. Two subapicals elongate, the outer very little shorter than the inner. Length: (female), 9 mm. (Kirkaldy 1906).

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [374]

General References

Monteith, G.B. 1991. The Butterfly Man of Kuranda, Frederick Parkhurst Dodd. South Brisbane : Queensland Museum 1, 34 pp. [ISBN 0 7242 4481 6] [1]

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