Species Sextius rubrilineus (Buckton, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 and IMCRA regions

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

Buckton, G.B. 1903. A Monograph of the Membracidae. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Limited 296 pp., 60 pls. [230]

 

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