Species Sextius major Distant, 1916

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• Sextius major Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [34].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Peak Downs, Queensland
  Comment: Broomfield (1971) notes that there are three paralectotype females and one paralectotype lacking an abdomen. The original description (Diatant 1916) also lists Gayndah, Queensland, as a locality for the type series but neither author has indicated how many paralectotypes are from each locality.

  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 [360].

 

Introduction

This species is known from two localities in eastern Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Body and legs pale testaceous; tegmina subhyaline, with the venation reddish ochraceous; pronotum thickly punctate, the lateral processes short, their apices obsoletely acute, almost straightly produced, longitudinally carinate, the posterior process about reaching tegminal apices, faintly tricarinate, its apical area recurved; tegmina distinctly wrinkled between the veins and usually with a few irregularly scattered small black spots. Long. 9 mm.; exp. lat. pronot. process. 4 mm (Distant 1916).

 

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [34–35]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
26-Apr-2012		26-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)