Species Sextius rubrilineus (Buckton, 1903)
Compiler and date details
11 April 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Pterosticta rubrilinea Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [230].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (Mr J.O. Tepper's collection), Adelaide, South Australia. - Pterosticta xantha Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [231].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀ (coll.11.i.1887, Tepper, Bursaria), Adelaide, South Australia.
Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀ (coll.: 11.i.1887, Tepper, Bursaria), Adelaide, South Austrlaia
Comment: two females glued on same card.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 [386].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [33] (synonymy of P. xantha)
Generic Combinations
- Sextius rubrilineus (Buckton, 1903). —
Distant, W.L. 1916. Rhynchotal Notes. lx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(18): 19-44 [33]
Introduction
The host record provided by Buckton (1903) with his description of P. xantha is unexpected in a genus associated with Acacia Mill. (Fabaceae). The New South Wales record comes from two specimens tentatively identified as this species in ASCU from Mittagong.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Sydney Basin (SB)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Bursaria sp. [PITTOSPORACEAE]).
Associated Flora References
Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [231] (Bursaria sp.)
Diagnosis
Very like Sextius virescens [(Fairmaire)], but the suprahumeral processes are much more obtuse. They are porrect as in Oxyrhachis [Germar], and dark at their tips. The posterior process has a bright red streak continued over the dorsum. The tegmina have the nervures subdivided at their apices, and the bases are transparently stippled. Probably the live insects are green in colour, instead of bright ochreous, as found in cabinets.Size, 7 x 3 mm (Buckton 1903).
Diagnosis References
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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26-Jun-2023 | MEMBRACOIDEA | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
26-Jun-2023 | MEMBRACIDAE Germar, 1821 | 24-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
10-May-2022 | CICADOMORPHA | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
02-Jun-2021 | AUCHENORRHYNCHA | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
16-May-2012 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
26-Apr-2012 | 26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | ||
26-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED |