Species Yangupia occidentalis (Goding, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Centrotypus occidentalis Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [27].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM 2 ♂, 1 ♀ (coll.: Lea), Swan River, Western Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Yangupia occidentalis (Goding, 1903). —
  Day, M.F. 1999. The genera of Australian Membracidae (Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 629-747 [727]

 

Introduction

This species was originally described from two males and one female syntypes from the Swan River, Western Australia. Day (1999) refers to a holotype which is invalid since Goding (1903) did not give a holotype designation. Day (1999) provides photographs of a specimen from Gibson which is near Esperance on the Western Australian south coast.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder (associated flora: Acacia sp. [FABACEAE] Wattle ((Day 1999))).

 

Diagnosis

Ferruginous, the head, base of prothorax excepting the edge, tips of lateral horns, chest, abdomen, femora excepting the tips, a spot on the tibiae, and tips of tarsi, black. Head as long as broad, base strongly curved, the apex produced downward, toothed on lateral borders, punctured; ocelli white, placed above a line passing centre of eyes to which they approach nearer than to each other. Prothorax punctured, furnished with a percurrent median carina; dorsum convex, armed on each side, above lateral angles, with a short, flat, conical horn, compressed inferosuperiorly, turned directly outward, apex obtuse, inclined a little downward and backward, the upper surface with the dorsum, convex; posterior process stout at the base, not tectiform, sinuous along inferior border, and gradually acuminate to the apex which reaches the tips of the tegmina. Tegmina vitreous, clear, veins ferruginous, punctured at base, a blackish cloud near base of clavus; first discoidal cell two thirds length of second, equal to and lying alongside of first apical cell. Long. 6½; lat. 2½; incl. lat. corn. 4 mm. ♀ Differs from the male in being tawny yellow, and ferruginous where the male is marked with black, and the larger size. Long. 9; lat. 3½; incl. lat. corn. 5 mm (Goding 1903).

 

Diagnosis References

Goding, F.W. 1903. A monograph of the Australian Membracidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 2-41 [27]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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