Species Euronotobrachys continuata (Distant, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Yarrana continuata Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal Notes. xxxix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 191-208 [207].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll: F.P. Dodd.), Queensland.
• Yarrana continuata var Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal Notes. xxxix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 191-208 [208].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll: F.P. Dodd), Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fennah, R.G. 1964. Three new genera of Eurybrachyidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from West Africa and Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 33(9-10): 157-162 [160] (synonymy of Y. continuata var.)

Generic Combinations

• Euronotobrachys continuata (Distant, 1906). —
  Fennah, R.G. 1964. Three new genera of Eurybrachyidae (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea) from West Africa and Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 33(9-10): 157-162 [160]

Introduction

The identity of all five species of Euronotobrachys needs to be confirmed by examination of the type material. Distant (1906) differentiated an unnamed variant in colour which lacked a basal transverse fascia on the tegmen. This indicates that he had at least a specimen of each variant although if there is only one example of the typical form, this could be considered a holotype by monotypy. The material was collected by F.P. Dodd so it was probably collected in the wet tropics of North Queensland but the wider distribution in Queensland cannot be determined until the identity of the species has been established.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Head, pronotum, mesonotum, face, clypeus, sternum and legs piceous; basal margin and two discal linear spots to vertex, anterior margin to pronotum and posterior margin to mesonotum brownish ochraceous; abdomen sanguineous, its apex with a white waxy secretion; tegmina pale brownish with small fuscous spots, base of costal margin, base of claval margin, a broken fascia before apex and the apical margin piceous, a pale stramineous transverse fascia a little beyond base, a large costal spot near apex and a transvers apical fascia pale hyaline; wings piceous, with two slender oblique paler lines; tegmina with the costal margin not or very obscurely sinuate, the apical margin obliquely rounded; face coarsely reticulately granulose; mesonotum distinctly tricarinate. Long, excl. tegm., 5–5.5 mm; exp tegm. 17 mm. (Distant 1906)

Diagnosis References

Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchotal Notes. xxxix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 191-208 [207–208]

History of changes