Species Sertorius castaneus Distant, 1916

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• Sertorius castaneus Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [25].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia.

Introduction

This species was listed as a synonym of S. luteus (Buckton) by Evans (1966) but was listed as a valid species by Day (1999). Its distribution within Australia is unknown.

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head and pronotum castaneous; body beneath more or less ochraceously pilose; legs pale castaneous; lateral areas of sternum and basal angles of scutellum palely ochraceously pilose; tegmina subhyaline, wrinkled, venation ochraceous, base castaneous; pronotum coarsely punctate, moderately centrally carinate, the lateral processes apically acute, outwardly, not upwardly, but distinctly a little backwardly directed, posterior process tricarinate, gradually narrowing from base, impinging on tegmina, but not reaching tegminal apex. Long., incl. tegm., 8 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 4½ mm (Distant 1916).

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [25]

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 [300]

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