Genus Sertorius Stål, 1866

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sertorius Stål, C. 1866. Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Hemiptera Africana 4: 1-276 [88].

  Type species:

   Centrotus australis Fairmaire, 1846 by subsequent designation, see Stål, C. 1866. Analecta Hemipterologica. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 10: 381-394 [387].

 

Introduction

This endemic genus currently includes six species as recognised by Day (1999) but the identities of some of these are unknown. A species level revision of the genus is required. The species are mainly medium to large in size, rich brown to black in colour and bearing only small triangular lateral pronotal processes.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Jarrah Forest (JF), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Venis longitudinalibus duabus interioribus corii ante medium venula transversa conjunctis (Stål 1866).

Medium to large, gibbous, dark compact species. Clypeus broad. Lateral pronotal processes small, acute. Median pronotal process long, almost straight. Pronotal notch wide. Crossvein m–cu1 present or absent. Subcostal cell narrow, of almost uniform width. Cucullate setae between rows distally (Day 1999).

Day (1999) provided a comprehensive redescription of the genus.

 

ID Keys

Fletcher, M.J. and Day M. F. (2005) Illustrated Key to the Genera of the Family Membracidae found in Australia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Membracidae) http://www1.dpi.nsw.gov.au/keys/leafhop/membracid/membrac00.htm [accessed: 11.iv.2012]

 

Diagnosis References

Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [714–716]

Stål, C. 1866. Hemiptera Africana. Holmiae : Officina Norstedtiana Vol. 4 1-276, pl. 1. [88]

 

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)