Species Sertorius australis (Fairmaire, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Centrotus australis Fairmaire, L.M.H. 1846. Revue de la tribu des Membracides. (Suite et fin). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2(4): 479-531 [518].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP sex, quantity unknown, Australia, as "Nouvelle Hollande".
• Centrotus obstans Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [162].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Tasmania.
• Centrotus binotatus Walker, F. 1858. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq. London : British Museum pp. 1-117. [81].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH sex unknown (abdomen missing), New South Wales.

  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 [335].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [19] (synonymy of C. obstans, C. binotatus)

 

Generic Combinations

• Sertorius australis (Fairmaire, 1846). —
  Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [19]
  Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [19]

 

Introduction

This medium sized reddish brown species is quite common in eastern Australia. Its distribution is apparently considerably wider than given here. Day (1999) listed localities for the genus Sertorius in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland which he said applied "mainly" to this species but he gave no indications which did and which were of other species in the genus.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Nigro-piceus, cornubus abbreviatis, cornu postico sinuato, elytra tangente.
Prothorax ponctué, arrondi antérieurement, légèrement caréné, de chaque côté une dent conique, courte; épine postérieure échancrée à l'écusson et touchant les élytres, égalant à peine l'abdomen, écusson jaune, élytresd'un jaune transparent, nervures brunes, noires à la base. Long 0.007 (Fairmaire 1846).

Pronotum very slightly keeled anteriorly; lateral processes conical, acute, horizontal, very short, very slightly curved backward. Length ♂ ♀, 6.8–8 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [300]

Fairmaire, L.M.H. 1846. Revue de la tribu des Membracides. (Suite et fin). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2(4): 479-531 [518–519]

 

General References

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

 

History of changes

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