Species Sertorius brevicornis Goding, 1903

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sertorius brevicornis Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [21].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀ (coll.: Lea), Mt Barker, Western Australia; whereabouts unknown ♀ (coll.: Tepper), South Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Sertorius brevicornis Goding, 1903. —
  Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [307]
• Acanthucus brevicornis (Goding, 1903). —
  Metcalf, Z.P. & Wade, V. 1965. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Membracoidea. Section 1. Raleigh, North Carolina : North Carolina State University pp. 1-743. [229]

 

Introduction

This species is known from SW Western Australia and South Australia. The latter record comes from a syntype female collected by Tepper who did most of his collecting on Kangaroo Island and adjacent parts of the mainland so it is likely that the South Australian record is from this area. Evans (1966) regarded this species as not being true Sertorius although Day (1999) listed it in the genus.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Head piceous, covered with yellow hairs, with an abbreviated median carina in the centre between the ocelli, two small tubercles below and forming a square with the ocelli, lateral borders with a denticle near base; ocelli on a line passing through the centre of the eyes and equidistant from them and from each other; base lightly curved. Prothorax piceous brown, the dorsum convex, blackish along the middle, and furnished with a strong, black median longitudinal carina; on each side of the dorsum, above lateral angles, is a short, stout, triquetrous, auricular horn turned upward, which is blackish on the convex superior surface towards the very obtuse tip, which ends in a blunt point, pointing outward, and a trifle backward; the horn is elevated but little above the middle of the dorsum; the posterior process is triquetrous, tectiform, lightly gibbous at the base, broad for a distance, thereafter gradually acuminate to the apex which reaches the end of the abdomen. Tegmina broad, basal third black, punctured and opaque, the remainder transparent smoky, veins, and a large spot on the disk, piceous. Sides of the chest and scutellum yellow pubescent. Legs strong, piceous; tibiae triquetrous, slightly flattened, a central carina from base to apex. Long. ♀ 6; lat. 3 mm., incl. lat. corn. 4 mm. (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 [21–22]

 

General References

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

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

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