Species Wallaciana barringtonensis (Day, 1999)
Neocanthuchus barringtonensis Day, holotype male.
© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.
Neocanthuchus barringtonensis Day, holotype male, frontal view.
© Copyright Murray Fletcher, Orange Agricultural Institute.
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Species Wallaciana barringtonensis (Day, 1999)
Compiler and date details
9 April 2012 - Murray J. Fletcher
- Neocanthuchus barringtonensis Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [689].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (coll.: 28 xii.1984, G. Williams), vicinity of Devils Hole Camp Ground, Barrington Tops State Forest, New South Wales.
Generic Combinations
- Wallaciana barringtonensis (Day, 1999). —
Evangelista, O. 2021. Wallaciana gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Membracidae), a new treehopper genus endemic to montane south-eastern Australia. Australian Entomologist 60: 672–681
Introduction
This species is known from a single male and a single female from the New South Wales north coast. It is the larger of the two known species.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC)
Ecological Descriptors
All stages: phloem feeder.
Diagnosis
Very dark brown, larger than type species, and exhibiting sexual dimorphism. Surface rugose, covered with minute fine white setae. Face ♂ black, ♀ brown. Frontal margin angular. Clypeus short, tip rounded. Eyes prominent, not visible from above. Humeral angle very well developed. Metopidium vertical, much higher than broad. Median pronotal process sinuate, terminating before reaching Cu1a in the ♂, slightly longer in the ♀. Lateral pronotal processes long and broad, much stronger than in type species, apex curved downwards. Tegmen apically acute, mottled brown. Venation with a few extra crossveins. More than half subcostal cell coriaceous. Apical veins almost straight. Appendix narrow. Length 7 mm (Day 1999).
Diagnosis References
Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [689–690]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-Jun-2023 | MEMBRACIDAE Germar, 1821 | 02-Jun-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 16-May-2012 | 16-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 26-Apr-2012 | 26-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |