Species Sertorius hospes (Kirkaldy, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Centrotypus hospes Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [378].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM sex, quantity unknown, Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Generic Combinations

• Sertorius hospes (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. [234]

 

Introduction

The identity of this species is unknown. Evans (1966) regarded it as being incertae sedis as Centrotypus hospes Kirkaldy and stated that the type was missing from BPBM. Day (1999) listed the species in Sertorius without comment.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Black with yellowish pubescence. Scutellar tufts prominent, pale yellow. Tegmina vitreous, veins dark, or pale, ferruginous. Legs more or less ferruginous, intermediate and posterior tibiae with apical half yellowish. Horns slight, acuminate turned directly outward, very slightly upward and backward, bases remote. Exterior subapical cell elongate, suboval. Length: 8 mm, width, 4¾ 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 [378]

 

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, 306]

 

History of changes

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