Species Sertorius luteus (Buckton, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphaerocentrus luteus Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [244].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (coll.: 20.x.1888, Tepper), Adelaide, South Australia.

  Type locality 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 [359].
• Sertorius affinis Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [25].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (coll.: J.J. Walker), Sydney, New South Wales.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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

 

Generic Combinations

• Sertorius luteus (Buckton, 1903). —
  Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [26]

 

Introduction

The known distribution of this species comes from the type localities of the synonyms. Broomfield (1971) gives the label data for Sphaerocentrus luteus as "Sandy Creek; Hakersanhans; 20.10.88. Tepper" but Buckton's (1903) original published data states that the type locality is Adelaide, South Australia. Sandy Creek is a township north of Adelaide (J. Jennings, pers. comm. 2012). The original data label has been examined (with thanks to Mick Webb, BMNH) and Broomfield's interpretation of Tepper's handwriting as "Hakersanhans" is incorrect. It actually says "Hakeas, on leaves", ie, on leaves of species of Hakea Schrad. & J.C.Wendl. (Proteaceae). Dr John Jennings of the University of Adelaide advises that the main species of Hakea in the Sandy Creek area of South Australia is Hakea rostrata F.Muell. ex Meisn.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Robust. Suprahumerals small and inconspicuous. The pronotum tumid, and ending in a stout posterior and curved horn with a nodular swelling below, continued as a fine crooked process as long as the tegmina. Surface rough and coarsely punctured all over the metopidium. Tegmina paler and obscurely veined. Size, 7 x 4 mm (Buckton 1903).

 

Diagnosis References

Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [244]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)